Every day on Corfu ends with a performance. The island’s position in the northeastern Ionian, facing west across open water toward the Italian coast and south toward the Ionian islands...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Exploring Corfu’s Old Town on Foot: A UNESCO Walking Tour There are cities whose history is best understood through books, and cities whose history is best understood by walking. Corfu...
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...