Lefkada is an island that rewards the explorer. One of the Ionian islands off the west coast of Greece, it is connected to the mainland by a causeway, and like its better-known neighbours Paxos and Corfu, looks west towards Venice rather than east. Overlooked by everyone other than yachties, who have turned it into … Read More
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
The seven islands that make up the Ionian Islands are about soft seduction; they don’t go in for brash, bright, harsh, wind-blown, barren, dynamic or other such theatricals – Corfu, Paxos, Lefkada, Ithaca, Kefalonia, Zakynthos and Kythira have always been a country apart – the Venetians owned them, as did Napoleon and then the Russian … Read More
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