The Ionian island of Corfu is a favoured Greek destination for a myriad of reasons. Some say it is for the beauty of the North, the dramatic shorelines, traditional villages, the green hillsides and the wild mountains, others claim that Corfu with its party resorts in the south is the place to enjoy the hedonism and excesses of the modern world and they are all right – Corfu is a contradiction that shouldn’t work, but it does and it works to perfection.
This island is a melting pot of civilizations, all of them leaving their mark; from the Venetian architecture to the perfectly English cricket pitches the atmosphere is beautifully diverse and entirely Corfu. A stay on this island of contradictions can take you to the best party in town and then back into the corners of a hidden Greece, a Greece that the locals are fiercely proud of but also love to show to those that visit.