First time trip to Europe destination Kefalonia
Your advice is needed please - hubby and I (with dog) are planning to travel to Kefalonia starting in May, making a slow trip staying at sites on the way and stopping over in Salzburg for a week. We will stay in Kefalonia for a couple of months before making our way home. We have never taken our caravan abroad before so helpful advice would be more than welcome please. Are we mad or what!! 
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Not mad but quite ambitious for a first trip abroad with the caravan but we all have to start somewhere. I think you have made the right choice to take it easier on the way out as this will get you used to towing aboard,usually a more pleasent experience than towing at home. You will need to check out ferries and decide how far overland you go whether some big sections will be by boat.
David
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Kefalonia by caravan? We had a week on Kefalonia after a small-ship island cruise. We hired a small car for the day and drove to Fiskardo, at the north of the island, via Myrtos beach. We've never been so terrified in all our lives: unguarded
roads at the edge of pricipitous drops to the sea!!Would anyone out there on CT contemplate what your proposing as a first trip abroad?
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Like David, I'd say you are not mad, but quite ambitious. Personally I wouldn't consider it as a first trip abroad, but not knowing your backgrounds and experience of driving with the caravan etc it's not for me to judge.
I'd imagine a lot of planning will be necessary as far as routes/ferries are concerned. There is a website
MagBazTravels which makes good reading; they are very experienced motorhomers, and Greece also features on their website as one of the countries they've been to. Perhaps an idea to have a look through it if you haven't already found that yourselves.We've only been to Kefalonia once on a day-trip by boat and enjoyed it there; I hope you succeed in carrying out your plans; let us know on here if you do, I'm sure a lot of people would be interested.
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Spent two weeks on Kephalonia about fifteen years ago, one week of which was spent trundling around in a little Hyundai Atos. The terrain, as I remember it, wasn't particularly conducive to towing a caravan. Youy are going to be arriving in Greece at the
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We ended up in Greece on our first caravan trip, so it is not entirely mad!! As has been said earlier MagBaz travels has lots of info on Greece as it is one of their favourite areas. In contrast to you and me though, they have now been on the road for
over 20 years non stop, I don't think they have spent more than a couple of days in Kefalonia with their bicycles though, not with either motorhome or caravan.I assume, like others, that you have a particular reason for Kefalonia, but I would suggest by caravan is not practical. Either fly out direct for an extended holiday, or take a leisurely trip, as you suggest, down to Greece with caravan and then find somewhere
safe on the mainland to leave the van while you go across to the island. Margaret and Barry (MagBaz) are a lovely couple, our paths have crossed a couple of times. If you e-mail them through their website they may well be able to give you some ideas on where
you might be able to leave the van.If you want a laugh, you can read the blog of
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Kefalonia is absolutely beautiful. We were there a few years ago, just booked a cheap flight and stayed in village rooms, travelling by bus.
There were a lot of Italian motorhomers there, camping "wild" at the back of the beach areas. They said, that if you book with a Greek ferry operator, rather than an Italian one, you don't need to book a cabin, you can sleep in your motorhome on the car
deck!Can't see Brittany Ferries introducing that, somehow.
Whatever you decide, have a great trip.
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