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I’ve always wanted to see Corfu after reading My Family and Other Animals and I’m so glad we could spend a week on the island as part of this trip. Easter celebrations on Corfu are a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Any time of year, the village of Kassiopi is gorgeous and the perfect spot for exploring. Basics We…

Hooray! My laptop has returned from its week-long “vacation” in London. Thanks to a generous stranger who turned it in to airport security, a very helpful co-worker of Rob’s in the UK and the mysteries of the Croatian postal service, it arrived at our apartment doorstep in Dubrovnik this morning. Stay tuned as I wrap…

We were being so clever: instead of an expensive three day ferry journey to Croatia through Italy, I managed to find an amazingly cheap deal on EasyJet flights from Corfu to London and then London to Dubrovnik. Basically, the equivalent of flying to Chicago to get from LA to San Francisco. But then I left…

Today’s post has way too many photos, but it was just so pretty – I can’t help it! Rob and I took the scooter back up into the hills for our last full day in Corfu. The beaches and water here are gorgeous, but I love exploring the upcountry even more. You start to get…

On Tuesday, Rob and I took the scooter for a ride along the north coast of Corfu. The weather was hot, but overcast. Still pretty here even without the bright blue skies. This is “New Week” in Greece and there are still a few more Easter festivities going strong. When we rode through the village…

The weather on Corfu today was hot, but overcast and occasionally drizzling. We decided to stick close to home with a picnic on the beach for lunch. Packed up my new tote from Athens and walked through town. We picked a spot on the flat limestone rocks hanging over the water at Kanoni Beach. Basic…

Rob and I took our scooter out for an adventure on Corfu earlier this week. Our destination? Palaia Perithia, the oldest village on the island.  We rode about 20 minutes almost straight up from Kassiopi, past tiny farms and super fragrant fields of wildflowers to find the old village with a view of the sea and Albania…

My Family and Other Animals is one of my favorite books, so I knew we had to fit a stay in a Corfu village into our itinerary. Corfu has a special place in the hearts of Greeks – every host we mentioned it to couldn’t stop fawning about how lucky we would be to see…

After Holy Week and Good Friday processions in Athens, Rob and I flew to Corfu on Saturday morning. Aegean Airlines is always so nice about giving you candy, drinks and snacks on their short flights. For this jaunt to Corfu they also gave us clay pots and candles! The clay pots are traditionally filled with…

It was fun to be in Athens for Holy Week from Palm Sunday to Good Friday!  Easter is the biggest holiday of the year in the Greek Orthodox Church and the city celebrates will all kinds of events. To start, you’ll find red and green decorations (the colors of Easter here) all over the place.…