{"id":5376,"date":"2025-04-17T04:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T08:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/?p=5376"},"modified":"2025-04-17T04:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T08:10:16","slug":"in-argostoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/2025\/04\/17\/in-argostoli\/","title":{"rendered":"In Argostoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5377\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5377\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5377 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2824-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2824-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2824-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2824-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2824-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2824-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2824-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Waterfront &#8211; Kefalonia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We arrived at the airport in Argostoli on the island of Kefalonia a day later than expected but all is well. A taxi driver, Stavros, delivered us to our apartment and we were greeted by our host, George, the owner of the coffee shop downstairs.<\/p>\n<p>Our apartment is cozy and well-located in the center of Argostoli. We have a nice kitchen, washing machine, and a large balcony. We are stocked with coffee, honey, yogurt, and a bottle of local white wine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5379\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5379\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5379 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2827-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2827-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2827-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2827-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2827-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2827-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2827-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Argostoli Apartment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">We are still learning our way around town but there are several small grocery stores, many coffee shops, three or four bakeries and plenty of restaurants. The busy season will start soon, but for now, the town is rather sleepy. The weather is pleasant with a high today of 72 degrees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some restaurants are closed for the Easter holiday weekend but we found <strong>Melograno<\/strong> on the main square. We liked their version of a Greek salad with delicious cherry tomatoes, cucumber chunks, large capers, crispy rusks (croutons) \u00a0and creamy dollops of feta cheese.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5382\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5382\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5382 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2825-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2825-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2825-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2825-113x150.jpeg 113w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2825-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2825-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2825-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greek Salad at Melograna Restaurant in Argostoli<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We are looking forward to participating in some of the traditional Easter celebrations and in learning more about the island of Kefalonia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We arrived at the airport in Argostoli on the island of Kefalonia a day later than expected but all is well. A taxi driver, Stavros, delivered us to our apartment and we were greeted by our host, George, the owner of the coffee shop downstairs. Our apartment is cozy and well-located in the center of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/2025\/04\/17\/in-argostoli\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In Argostoli&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greece-and-france-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5376"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5386,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376\/revisions\/5386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}