Located off the west coast of mainland Greece, the Ionian islands are one of Europe’s top leisure sailing and yachting destinations. Navigation is easy — the region’s 100 or so islands and ...

Neilson (neilson.co.uk) also runs flotillas in the Ionian Islands and, for beginners, offers a “stay and sail” holiday, where you spend the first week at a beach club, training with an ...

But all this would become crystal- clear as my girlfriend Britta and I embarked on a weeks learn-to-sail course around the Greek Ionian Islands. We were welcomed by our skipper Andy Cameron in the ...

The next day, set sail for Kefalonia, the largest island in the Ionian. It’s around a three-and-a-half-hour sail to reach Kefalonia’s quaint Venetian harbour town, Fiskardo, which has plenty ...

But leave the crowds to Corfu. The Ionian islands are best discovered by boat, the smaller the better. It’s notable that Luxe Sailing’s itinerary omits Corfu entirely. Climbing aboard the Sol ...

Whether cruising around the Saronic Gulf from Athens or trying a new watersport in Lefkada, these three sailing routes incorporate adventures aplenty. Greece’s Ionian Islands hold deep ...