Shoulder season is the stretch between the quiet winter months and the summer peak. In Southern Europe that usually means late April through early June, and again from mid-September through October. The weather is generally settled, the days are long enough to fill, and the main sights keep normal hours. The exact dates matter less than the pattern: demand has not yet reached its yearly high.
Summer is the weaker choice for most trips here, and the reasons are prac
An island that's actually Greece´s northwesternmost point, Corfu is considered the lushest of the Greek islands and has ended up with the usual holiday-isle mix of tourism-saturated beach pockets (popular especially with Brits) balanced by bucolic landscapes and villages of its rugged interior. It's thought to be the ispiration for Prospero's island in William Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Corfu Town (Kerkyra)
In this lively, cosmopolitan capital (top) you can check out the winding lanes and
Last weekend the final two races of the Cretan Union Cup Regatta took place off Agios Nikolaos – the first event of this kind celebrating 100 years of Crete Island union with mainland Greece and to honor the Cretan culture.
Cretans have a lot history and modern-day culture to be proud of and, once again, they’ve proven the Minoan’s spirit is still alive on the Island. As November and fall come to Crete, these Islanders prepare for autumn activities: grape gathering, wine a
Almost since the dawn of recorded history, Man has been crossing the Aegean Sea by boat, and this remains the best way to do it. We could paraphrase the words of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: ‘If you just want to get there, you could fly, but to travel, you must take a boat’
There are boats of all description plying this sea, and I’ve sailed on a lot of them. The one that the island people themselves use, as well as the tourists, is the ferry. Most of these leave the Greek mainland from the port of Pi
