Kefalonia is hoping to cash in on Greek Island holiday cruises next year after a major upgrade of facilities at the main port of Argostoli Kefalonia tourist officials say more than 100 cruise liners are scheduled to tie up in Argostoli in 2012, nearly double last year's total. The Greek island holiday cruise liners are set to bring more than 250,000 tourists to Kefalonia over the 2012 summer holiday season.

When you think of Kefalonia, there are three things that should come to mind: drink, dance and party. If that doesn't sound like a good time to you, then perhaps the Kefalonia nightlife will be a bit over your head. However, if this sounds like it might lead to the best time of your life, then it would be a good idea to consider a holiday to Kefalonia. Let's take a look at the best bars, clubs and restaurants in Kefalonia.

Many visitors on a holiday in Kefalonia last summer will have strolled along the British-built bridge that lies across the Argostoli lagoon. The bridge has become a major Kefalonia holiday attraction. But, after many promises and several false starts on renovating the bridge, it was closed this week after part of it collapsed into the lagoon at Argostoli. Workmen have now sealed off the Kefalonia tourist attraction following the latest setback and accusations fly over who is responsible.

A strange sight for anyone on a late holiday break in Kefalonia would be a large group of muslims at prayer in the middle of an open field. But Pakistanis living in Kefalonia were forced out in the open when Kefalonia municipal authorities refused a request to provide a place to pray at the annual religious bairam festival recently. There are about 150 Pakistani immigrants living and working on the holiday island of Kefalonia.

Plans to increase the number of fish farms on Kefalonia and Ithaca have come under fierce attack from islanders. They accuse regional officials of bulldozing through plans to allow vast fish farms to be built off the coasts of the holiday islands of Kefalonia and Ithaca. Kefalonians fear the islands could be turned into vast fish farms and holiday tourists could go elsewhere. Areas earmarked for fish farms lie off the Kefalonia coast to the south-east.

UK holidaymakers are giving Kefalonia island the thumbs down, with 1,800 fewer tourists taking Kefalonia holidays last month. The drop in visitor numbers in Kefalonia comes despite a surge in UK visitors to other Greek holiday islands such as Rhodes and Kos. UK arrivals at Kefalonia airport in August totalled 21,730 compared to 23,611 in the same month last year, a drop of nearly 8%.

Everyone enjoys a few glasses of wine when on holiday and what better than to taste wine that has been grown in Greek Island vineyards. Kefalonia has a wine-making tradition dating back at least to Homer but this is an industry, and an island for that matter, that has suffered severe setbacks in modern history. Invasion, civil war and, most recently, the devastating earthquake of 1953 have al taken their toll