Getting into Greece – Kefalonia – Day 1

I first visited Kefalonia with my husband in 2015. We stayed for a week and fell in love with the more laid back approach to Greek Island life. Almost a year to the day later we returned.

We stayed at Olive Grove Studios Svoronata, the same place we had previously stayed, mainly because of the awesome staff and proximity to the airport.

Kefalonia is beautiful and big and not possible to do in a long weekend (which was all we had). We arrived on the Saturday afternoon and quickly realised that even less was open this year, despite being the same time of April we had visited in 2015. We quickly realised that the ‘on season’ is tied to Greek Orthodox Easter, which I never knew was different to the Easter I celebrate. So if visiting Greece around March/April I would recommend making sure you know when Easter is being held and plan your trip around that.
Regardless of religious holidays there was still plenty to do in Argostoli, the Island’s capital. We dined that evening at ‘Pan Nik’, a grill house and familiar to us from previous visits.  This restaurant serves huge portions of meat and chips and salad and has nice cheap local wine by the jug.

After eating a big meal we went for a walk around the square and found a small bar/coffee house called ‘Le Baroque Bistrot’. The name was the only french sounding thing as far as I could tell. We ordered two glasses of wine and were presented with an awesome tapas like spread which we barely touched due to over-expanded stomachs thanks to Pan Nik.

Needless to say, after a bit of a banter with Athena at the hotels kiosk, we went straight to sleep.