Gialos beach is one of the wide, wild and blissfully uncrowded shores of the west coast of Lefkada, a long sweep of sand and smooth white pebbles beneath green mountains. Lying about 35 kilometres south-west of Lefkada Town and just north of the famous Egremni. Gialos beach shares the west coast’s clear blue water and … Read more
A Lefkada itinerary rewards the traveller who treats the island as a driving route rather than a single resort. Lefkada joins the mainland by a causeway, so a hire car reaches the north town, the west-coast cliffs, the sheltered east coast and the mountain interior across roughly fifty kilometres. Three days catch the headline sights, … Read more
Lefkada sits in the Ionian Sea. Joined to the Greek mainland by a short causeway and a floating bridge. It is one of the few Greek islands reached entirely by car. This road link keeps the island compact and easy to tour, yet it packs a wide range of attractions into a small area. Bright … Read more
Egremni is the long white-pebble beach on the south-west coast of Lefkada. The second shore south along that coast after Porto Katsiki, lying below the village of Athani and about 40 km from Lefkada Town. It runs for roughly two kilometres at the foot of a high. Near-vertical cliff of pale rock. The water in … Read more
Lefkada sits on the western edge of Greece, joined to the mainland by a causeway and a floating bridge, and its coastline behaves like two separate islands. The western shore runs beneath tall white limestone cliffs that drop into open Ionian water, while the eastern shore curls into green, sheltered inlets that barely register a … Read more