Life's about experiences. These are mine.
It’s our penultimate day in Corfu and we are beginning to struggle to find new things to do, part of the problem to coming to an island so small and not being the sort of people to just sit and relax by the pool! We have been so lucky with the weather so far but …
Continue reading “Greece 2015 – Mouse Island, Corfu – Threatening Skies”
While Corfu is a small island traversing it can take a while as the roads are narrow, windy and not very well maintained. So a trip from Ermones to Kassiopi which is about 25 miles takes an hour and a half. Of course it’s not a bad view as you make your way over but …
Continue reading “Greece 2015 – Kassiopi, Corfu – King of the Castle”
Today we decided to do a walk around the area local to the hotel. We did this a couple of years ago when we were here last and knew it to be a pretty walk but that the instructions were somewhat inaccurate. With the instructions that I had amended after our last time we set …
Continue reading “Greece 2015 – Ermones, Corfu – How’s Your Vatos?”
Corfu is a small island and so it is difficult to find new things to do but today we stumbled upon somewhere we hadn’t been before. On our way to the very beautiful Vlacherna Monastery we stopped at some Roman ruins that we had seen before but never got round to. Opposite was an unprepossessing entrance …
Continue reading “Greece 2015 – Keykyra, Corfu – Hunt for the Cafe Bristol”
After a leisurely start to the day that included a talk from the Thomson rep telling us of all the wonderful things we could do while on the island we set off in our little hire car to the pretty seaside “town” of Paleokastritsa. When we were here two years ago at roughly the same …
Continue reading “Greece 2015 – Paleokastritsa, Corfu – Exchanging One Boat for Another”
So today was our last day at sea sailing over night from Montenegro back to Greece to leave our floating hotel for one on terra firma. The whole cruise operation is a slick one and with a ratio of two guests to every crew member it is hard not find someone no matter where you …
Continue reading “Greece 2015 – Corfu, Greece – Back on Dry Land”
I’d like to say that I slept well and awoke rested but I didn’t. This was probably due to the novelty of sleeping alone, or at least that is what I am telling Helen. I remember all the years we took the overnight ferry to France how it was noisy and, occasionally, rough making sleep …
Now when I go on holiday I do like to take a photo or two but even I was surprised when I downloaded them and found we had taken 1027! Greece is a beautiful place and it is easy to get carried away with the snapping, especially now that everything is digital and there is …
After the rains of yesterday we had expected it to be wet again today so were pleased to see that it was dry when we got up and so we quickly got in the car and made our way to Palaiokastritsa. When you book a hire car you typically select from a group and are …
Continue reading “Greece 2013 – Palaiokastritsa – That's Easy for you to say”
We had decided to take part in one of the organised activities this morning – a walk to a local bee producers. About a dozen people including ourselves turned up to be taken by the tour guide just a short distance to the factory where the owner was on hand to show us round and …
Continue reading “Greece 2013 – Ermones – The Scottish Beekeeping Appreciation Society”