Car rental in Kefalonia solves a problem the island creates by its own geography. Kefalonia stretches about 773 square kilometres of mountain and coast, the largest of the Ionian Islands, and its beaches, caves and villages sit at opposite ends of that landmass. Myrtos hangs below cliffs in the northwest, Melissani opens inland from Sami … Read more
Lixouri faces Argostoli across the Gulf, about 4 kilometres of water and a 20 to 30 minute ferry ride from the capital of Kefalonia. The town is the island’s second settlement and the centre of the Paliki peninsula, a farmed, low-lying quarter in the southwest that most visitors see only from the opposite shore. Its … Read more
Antisamos beach occupies a wide bay on the east coast of Kefalonia, about 4 km from the port of Sami over a green ridge. White pebbles line the shore, the water deepens within metres of the waterline, and hills covered in trees close the bay on three sides. The open side looks east across the … Read more