Archive for ‘Kefalonia’ Category

The Singing Islands

Not that they have a superiority complex or anything, but the Ionian islands off Greece’s west coast do like to point out  that they were  part of the very civilized Venetian empire for four hundred years, while the rest of Greece stewed under the Turkish yoke. There are many legacies of the Venetians; a local … Read More

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Assos – Kefalonia’s Sleeping Beauty needs a kiss

  Almost like a film set, the tiny harbour of Assos on the west coast of Kefalonia,  is improbably picturesque, with pastel coloured houses encrusting the small isthmus from which sprouts a pine-covered headland, crowned with a Venetian fortress.  The village enfolds in its plump and pretty arms a small beach and a perfectly limpid … Read More

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