The claim in the title of this article is a strong one, and it deserves the direct and honest substantiation that a strong claim requires. Corfu in October is better...
Every place has its story, and some places have stories more dramatic and more instructive than others about the forces that the tourist economy exerts on the communities it reaches....
There is a category of place that travel writing consistently underserves: the place that is excellent not because of a single dramatic feature or a celebrated attraction but because of...
The road from Paleokastritsa climbs steeply from the coastal settlement, switchbacking up the limestone ridge that separates the bay from the agricultural interior of the island’s northwest, and at each...
Corfu is not a single place. It is, like most islands of any significant size and history, a collection of places that share a geography and a name but that...
There is a version of Corfu that exists above the olive line, above the coastal resorts and the tourist beaches and the Venetian architecture of the town, in the higher...
The village of Pelekas sits on the central ridge of Corfu with the particular confidence of a settlement that has occupied its elevated position for long enough to regard the...
There are villages in Corfu that have accommodated the tourist century with more or less grace, adjusting their character to the requirements of the visitors who pass through them while...
September Wildlife in Corfu: Autumn Migration and the Return of the Birds The spring migration that fills Corfu’s skies and olive groves with the northward movement of millions of birds...
September Sunsets in Corfu: The Golden Light of the Early Autumn Ionian The sun sets over the Ionian in September at an angle that it does not achieve in July...