TRAVEL AND LIFESTYLE DIARIES

The island of Kefalonia is a sizable piece of island, and even though we have stayed for 2 weeks, we were far from having seen everything. The Paliki peninsula for example is one of the places that we would have wanted to discover earlier and spend more time with. We’ve only been here 1 day. From Argostoli, the capital of Kefalonia, Dutchman and I took the ferry to Lixouri , the second largest city in the island and the main city in the Paliki peninsula. The ferry service goes often during the summer months and it transports motorcycles and cars as well, which is handy for us as we are bringing our rental scooter with us. We spent the most of our afternoon at Xi Beach aka the Red Beach because of its red-orange sand colour. Dutchman and I were slightly miffed for not having discovered this beach early in the holiday. But what can we do when Kefalonia is such a huge island? We don’t want to be rushing to different places and resort into ticking-the-bucket-list kind of holiday....

Last year Dutchman and I sailed to a small island paradise called Ithaca which is located beside Kefalonia Island where we were based for our summer holiday. The boat cruise  we booked had 2 main stops: Vathy , the capital of the island Kioni, a small picturesque harbour village in the north Here in Kioni Dutchman and I had our dinner on the bay harbour, at the Mythos Taverna . It was one of our unforgettable dinners in this holiday, simply because of the romantic setting and gorgeous views, as well as the fact that it took a boat ride to get here and dine on the beach shore. This kind of dinner is something I really look forward to during our summer holidays. I live for this. Here is the location of Kioni on the Greek map: Our boat left from Skala in Kefalonia and sailed to Ithaca (Ithaki) Island, first stopping at Vathy and then to Kioni. This summer, which is already next month we are going to Lefkada, the bigger island north of Ithaca. If you know me, my...