Sam-n-Nellie & other visitors

Visitors are like buses, you don’t get any for several weeks then 2 lots arrive within days!Sam and her friend Lilly landed in Corfu at 7am Monday morning, from Athens. They have been Island hopping for the last few weeks and they are going to spend 2 weeks in Corfu. After spending 3 nights at our house in Acharavi, they have managed to get a room in the Athena Hotel in St Stefano for 4 nights, and as they move to The Athena, Helen & Martin arrive for 2 weeks, an allocation on arrival package with Acharavi as the preferred destination. (They get the outskirts of Sidari 10 miles away!)After visiting their apartments at midnight we decide that they should stay with us and see if they can swap to a nearer apartment to us, or let Sammie & Lil’ take up the Sidari apartment when they have to leave The Athena.

In the morning Martin weighed up the options, stay in Sidari with its all night bars & clubs, foam parties & wet T-Shirt competitions, or stay in Acharavi with us, on a camp bed in our spare room? With maybe a bit of influence from Helen they decided to stay with us for the duration! So Sam n Lil got to party in Sidari for 4 nights & everyone was happy!

We are managing to fit in plenty of socialising around Keith’s gigs (4 x 2 hour gigs a week). All 6 of us went to Corfu town on Tuesday night & despite all the amazing shopping opportunities & designer clothes shops the only purchase made was some baklava for Liz.

We ended the evening with a beautiful meal in a square behind the cathedral, although in typical Greek style the service was slow, the 1st of the 6 meals arriving 20 minutes before Keith & Martins steaks finally arrived, 1½ hours after we sat down in the restaurant! But there was plenty of activity in the square, including some Greek dancers all in traditional costumes and there were lots of great people watching opportunities.

We had a wonderful day on Friday. After finding Sammie n Lil an apartment in San Stefano for their last 3 nights in Corfu, we dropped them off and the four of us spent the afternoon on the beach. Then at 6pm we went to Agios Georgios and got a boat taxi to a very remote fish restaurant not accessible by road. We had a huge platter of fish and king prawns and lots of wine and watched yet another beautiful sunset.

By the time the boat taxi came to collect us it was dusk, which was a fantastic sensation speeding across the sea when it was nearing darkness.

It’s great to have Helen and Martin over here with us; we are doing lots of exploring, lots of chilling on the beaches, lots of eating in restaurants and lots of drinking of wine. It’s just perfect really.

Don’t know how much longer we can stand this sort of pace of life though? We keep having to pinch ourselves to make sure we are not dreaming.
Only 3 more weeks to go until we sail back to Venice.