AtCorfu Travel Blog

The Corfu land of 1962 as seen with the cameras of British Pathe, a famous film company that has left many documents from that era as well from the era during World War II.

Yes, in comparison with today Corfu was then a virgin island, both in the environment and on the character of the locals.
Most landscapes were not flattened by the “development” that mass tourism brought, and the mentality of Corfiots was not yet alienated by the illusion of easy money.

The Old men and the prickly pears (pavlosyka in Corfu) still here but the first spend their time in cafes, the difference is that at those times they remained active until their death.
Children no longer play with marbles and stones but with Smartphones, and the more affluent with iPhones, each season has its mark (and pays its price).
We were impressed by how nice the beach of Glyfada looked when it was … empty.

Photographic documents of those times, from any place, are very interesting.
Even if no spectacular at all, like the current videos are, (where everyone with the help of a high-resolution camera and a flying drone can deliver impressive images which tie you down), they are valuable through their simplicity, as well as something rare because only large movie companies had the technological capacity to carry them out.

Easter night of 2016 in Corfu town with shots from above with the drone of Christos Servos.

Spectacular show with the drone located high over Garitsa Bay and overlooks the old fortress, the crowded square Esplanade and across the coastal highway down to Anemomylos.

Some fireworks from other villages on the island are visible too.

Source of the video is the channel of Cris Servos at youtube

Shots of Corfiot coastline and videos from DJI Inspire 1

Here we go again, with more Corfu, more beauty.

A 20 minutes video with shots of Corfiot coastline from the air along with videos from places in Corfu taken with DJI Inspire 1 by Chris Servos.
The hawk is real, it was flying alongside the drone in the area of Episkopiana village.

Selected parts of the island in a 3 minutes video from above Corfu’s coastline during summer of 2016.

Needless to mention that there are only selected parts of the island as it is not possible to show a coastline of 270 kilometers in just 3 minutes.

Update: Video has been removed since 2016 due to copyright issues, instead we show you another video from Corfu town taken with the help of a drone, the video has a length of 3 minutes too.