Category: Travel

  • Day 49 – Igoumenitsa and the Parrot Sketch

    Day 49 – Igoumenitsa and the Parrot Sketch

    Post Views: 32 End of the seventh week and it’s another travel day. After 10 days on Corfu (thoughts on Corfu at the end), we’re on the homeward stretch now. It was an early start for Phil and Linda with a 5:45 taxi to Corfu airport. They had two flights today, one to Athens and…

  • Day 48 – Avlaki Beach

    Day 48 – Avlaki Beach

    Post Views: 29 Last full day on Corfu and the weather has been much kinder – 27C, a refreshing breeze and no rain! We’ve been told, by Yeota, the villa owner, that this sort of weather is very unusual. They might get a day of rain in September, but not this many days in a…

  • Day 47 – Quiet Day

    Day 47 – Quiet Day

    Post Views: 22 Today started rather mutedly. Too much Gin the night before. So by the time we were all up and about and watered the weather was closing in again. We had a huge thunderstorm roll through from about 2 to 4. And because it was a slow day, we finally got ready to…

  • Day 46 – Avlaki Beach

    Day 46 – Avlaki Beach

    Post Views: 22 A bit of a quiet day today. We had a wet morning so hung around the villa until 3. Linda discovered what seems to be the only jigsaw in the property, Friends… in black and white… tricky! Linda and Sue then walked into Avlaki Beach with Phil and I following in the…

  • Day 45 – Palaiokastritsa and Lakones

    Day 45 – Palaiokastritsa and Lakones

    Post Views: 27 After a cracking overnight thunderstorm the weather settled enough for us to head over to the West side of the island again and to visit Palaiokastritsa. We were all woken up around 1am for a lightning and thunder show. It lasted an hour or so, but unlike the last one in Dubrovnik,…