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...
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...
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...
April Swimming in Corfu: First Dips of the Season and Best Early Beaches The question arrives every spring, asked by visitors planning early season trips and locals who have spent...
April Wildflowers: Corfu’s Countryside at Peak Botanical Beauty There is a version of Corfu that the summer visitor never sees. It exists only in spring, and within spring, most completely...