The Film

In March/April 2022, COVID willing, Sé Merry Doyle will film a documentary of a journey based on John Waller’s book Walking the Corfu Trail with Friends, Flowers and Food. The island of Corfu is covered in flowers in the Spring.

A main task during the walk will be to identify from where Edward Lear made his beautiful landscape paintings between 1848 and 1864. According to Homer, Odysseus landed on Corfu on his way home to Ithaca. The film will find where he landed and where King Alcinous’s city was located.

For lovers of and walkers in countryside away from mass tourism, the film has few equals.