By Train & Boat to Kefalonia

This summer I travelled with my family to Kefalonia. You can find this Island between Corfu and Zante. You may know this Island from the film Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.

We travelled overland to Kefalonia by train and boat. We bought an Interrail pass travelling five days in a ten day period this was great value for money much cheaper than individual tickets. The train travel started in the Netherlands. Our first journey was from Utrecht to Munich this train journey took approximately seven hours, where we stopped for two nights. Munich is a great city with plenty to see and to do. You have a whole range of museums a fantastic park called the English Garten (this is focal point for the Munich beer festival held at the end of September) and plenty of places to go shopping. After Munich we travelled to Venice - this train journey was really beautiful; it travels right across the Alps and Dolomite region of Austria and Northern Italy. In Venice we also stayed two nights in this fantastic and very special city. We bought a bus/boat 48 hour pass for the whole of Venice region which was great value of money. We stayed on Venice Island, which I would recommend. We visited the Island of Murano, which is also called the Glass Island and the Island of Burano, which is famous for Lase. These two Islands are quieter than the main Venice Island were all the action takes place! We took the train from Venice to Brindisi in south of Italy this journey took about eight hours with change of trains in Rome. From Brindisi we took the boat to Kefalonia this is a direct service we departed at 1800 and arrive the next day 0800am. This ferry operates nearly every day in the summer.

Kefalonia is a beautiful island and not as touristy as Corfu or Zante. It has the most beautiful beach in Greece called Myrtos Beach. Kefalonia was struck by an earthquake in 1953 a lot of the buildings are pretty new. The village of Fiskardo in the North of the Island has escaped the earthquake; there are lot of nice of old buildings. The accommodation that we stayed in was called Residence Poseidon, which is in the south of the island near the small village of Sparta. I would recommend hiring a car. Eating out in Kefalonia is relatively cheap but going to supermarkets is pretty expensive. After all that travelling we decided to fly back all in all a fantastic holiday.