The fishing boat leaving the harbour in the small hours of the morning, its running lights diminishing across the dark water as the engine settles into its working rhythm, is...
There is a particular kind of place that only a certain combination of wealth, melancholy, and obsessive personality can produce. The Achilleion Palace on the hills above Gastouri, looking south...
Eating well in Corfu is not difficult. The island has been producing food of exceptional quality for centuries, its cuisine shaped by the same layered cultural inheritance that gave it...
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...