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The Walls That Talk in Pelekas
by Hilary Paipeti

Corfu Trail hikers may now enjoy a community arts and culture project called ‘The Walls That Talk’ which was launched at the start of July 2025 in Pelekas, central west Corfu. The village is one of very few inland settlements with a buzzing tourism trade, one well known for attracting artistic and alternative activities. Over the course of the project, five acclaimed artists created large-scale murals inspired by local history, nature, and everyday life. Powerful examples of street art, the works were painted on derelict or ugly concrete walls, and they will leave a lasting artistic and inspirational legacy - one that beautifies the village and becomes a point of reference for both residents and visitors. All the works except one are located on the course of the Corfu Trail so that hikers may enjoy the artwork whilst proceeding through the village.
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Corfu Walks With Hilary
By Theresa Nicholas

According to some sources, and now a ‘truth’ rampant in the world of tittle-tattle and hearsay, Hilary Whitton Paipeti neither created nor founded the Corfu Trail. Apparently, she might have been one of a group of Corfu Residents who ‘devised it’ in 2001. That would have been quick work, since the first walkers hiked the route that year, in the company of Hilary herself (the hike is described in the article ‘Out of the Blue’ elsewhere on this page). This series of diary entries, made by Hilary’s walking companion Theresa Nicholas during the second half of the 1990s when she was helping Hilary develop the Trail route, demonstrate that its alleged non-creator really was the one who put the work in.
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On the Corfu Trail
by Hilary Paipeti - first published in The Corfiot Magazine, June 2001

'Everywhere I look there's blue,' exclaimed Dudley in awe. It was May 2001 and we were sitting at the harbour at Benitses enjoying a cold beer after a day of walking on the Corfu Trail, the island's long-distance waymarked route. Close by, brightly painted fishing boats bobbed by the jetty. Beyond stretched the blue, with only the bare mainland mountains sundering the sea from the sky. After the grey of England during the wettest twelve months since records began, coupled with the Foot and Mouth crisis which barred hikers from the countryside, Corfu that Spring was a joy, and the Trail a journey back to normality.  
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