Corfu Town has two fortresses, and most visitors spend most of their time at the wrong one. The Old Fortress, dramatic on its rocky promontory above the Spianada, is the...
The Corfu that most visitors encounter is the coastal one. The beaches, the harbour towns, the seafront tavernas, the boat trips along the northwest cliffs: these are the experiences that...
There are places that photographs have made so familiar that the actual experience of arriving at them can feel like revisiting something already known. Paleokastritsa is one of those places....
Standing on the northeast coast of Corfu on a clear morning, the Albanian mountains are so close and so sharply defined that they seem less like a foreign country than...
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...