01
Getting here, and the car question
Kalamata airport, the drive down the coast, and why the kilometres lie.
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Six things we would tell you over the first glass.
We wrote the TravelBlis guide to this region, which meant checking 277 mapped businesses one at a time and finding that 92 per cent of the eating places publish nothing at all. These six pages are the part of that work you need for a week here.
02
Which beach, and when
There is no best beach here. There is the best one for what you had in mind.
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03
Where to eat, and how it works
Kardamyli publishes its own list of tavernas. It is better than any review site, and here is how to use it.
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04
The gorge, the old village and the coast path
Three walks you can do from the house without a guide, a map app or a plan.
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05
Down the peninsula: Areopoli, Diros and the end of the road
The stone country south of the waist, and how to do it in a day without hating the drive.
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06
The two festivals in Kardamyli
Books in the first week of October, jazz in the third. Both fill the village.
Read it →And the whole region, at book length.
These six pages are the short version. The guide is the long one, with every source named and dated.