Buses From Igoumenitsa

 

Bus from Igoumenitsa 11.30am on Mondays and Fridays. Journey takes about 1 and a half hours. Very helpful man said ring KTEL Igoumenitsa when you are in Corfu to reserve a seat on it, although he does not think the bus is ever full! So, all you need is a friendly Greek speaker and problem solved. Get a ferry from Corfu not later than 9.30am and you will be fine, it is only 5 minutes walk to the bus depot

 

Buses from Prevesa to Lefkada are...15.00  17.00  and 20.00 (short journey but quite attractive past the old castles the Venetians built to guard the island- they called it Santa Mauro).

 

From Lefkas down to Ithaca, Zakynthos and Cephalonia ferries are run by Ionian Pelagos lines (website in English if you click the union jack logo). The timetable is clear.

 

Suggest not going to Patras but cross to Astakos. From there you can pick up the 13.00 bus Messolonghi, which connects with the bus from Messolonghi to Galaxidi which leaves at 14.30.

Spend the night in Galaxidi (one of Greece's hidden jewels, absolutely stunning). Look at its website.  From there you can get the bus the beautiful route to Athens, passing through the middle of the fabulous site of Delphi, on through the ski resort of Arachova, and then the valley which is known as the breadbasket of Greece as it is so fertile, and so on into Athens.

 

Alternatively if you do get to Patras there are two buses a day from there to Galaxidi- one at 12.30 and one at 18.00.  The journey takes about 2 and a half hours.