Landing on Corfu for the first time, the green that covers the island from the air is striking in a way that no description quite prepares you for. Other Greek...
The northwest coast of Corfu is where the island makes its most dramatic argument for the attention of the world. Elsewhere, Corfu is beautiful in the gentle, accumulated way of...
The best way to understand what a week at Villa Kapella is like is to follow it from the beginning. Not the promotional version, with every moment arranged and every...
The Ionian summer does not arrive suddenly. It builds through the warming weeks of May, gaining confidence with each passing day, until June delivers it in its full and generous...
Kardaki and Corfu’s Royal Connections: A Hidden Corner of the Island The Kanoni peninsula, with its famous view of Vlacherna and Pontikonisi, draws visitors from across the world to its...
Kanoni and Pontikonisi: Corfu’s Most Iconic Landscape There are views in Greece that have been photographed so many times, reproduced on so many postcards and travel websites and social media...
Garitsa and Anemomilos: Corfu Town’s Most Elegant Seaside Neighbourhoods Every city of substance has its quieter quarters, the neighbourhoods that the tourist maps mark but that the majority of visitors...
The Archaeological Museum of Corfu: Treasures of the Ancient Ionian World Before the Venetians built their walls and gates, before the Byzantines constructed their churches, before the Romans administered their...
The Venetian Gates of Corfu Town: Ancient Entrances to a Fortified City To enter Corfu Town through one of its surviving Venetian gates is to pass through a threshold that...
Spring Birdwatching in April: Migration Season Peaks Over Corfu Every April, the skies above Corfu fill with travellers. They arrive from sub-Saharan Africa and the Mediterranean basin, from wintering grounds...