“Oh how I wish you were here”....

....we're just two lost souls, living in a fish bowl, year after year.....

Be careful what you wish for …….

We had expected to have 3 weeks of recharging our batteries and detoxing, but as usual, things don’t always go as you plan them. As Helen and Martin left they were saying how much they were missing Emily their granddaughter, and we were saying the same about Gemma and the kids, and how we couldn’t wait to see them in 3 weeks time! Well we didn’t have to wait that long we got a phone call on the Sunday from Gemma, saying she was fed up and an hour later she’d booked a flight to arrive on the Tuesday, THIS Tuesday!!! Only 3 days of peace and tranquillity!!!!

There was a gale force wind blowing when we woke up on the Tuesday morning so we decided to have a day out in Corfu town seeing some of the things we’d meant to look at when the weather was not so hot, this seemed like an ideal day for it. We parked up at the old port

and walked along in the direction of the Liston and the old fortress. We passed old Venetian style buildings some with plaques telling of the famous and not so famous people who’d lived there including Edward Lear.

We walked through the archway

and into the grounds of the palace of SS Michael & George,

which houses the museum of Asian Art. It is a fascinating building, which started life in 1819 as a summer royal residence for British monarchy. We wandered around the grounds

which also contain throw backs to its time as a residency including a spiral staircase going down to a jetty from which private bathing could take place.

We went from here to the old fortress, which dominates the east side of Corfu town, dating back to pre Byzantine times, and was made into an island by the Venetians in the 15th century when a channel was dug between the fort and the Town. We climbed to the highest point of the fort which gave us impressive views over Corfu town

...many photos later and very windswept we climbed down and returned into the heart of the old town. We had a nice meal in one of our favourite restaurants in the square near St Spiridon Cathedral then off to the airport to pick up our next visitors.

View of a massive cruise boat from the grounds of the palace