Corfu Palace Corfu Town

Hello Friends!!!

I'm torn between it being a relief and a disappointment that I now speak English freely among all the other English-speaking folks. (I'm on the cruise.) While there are over 40 countries represented by visitors, America absolutely took the cake by almost triple that of any other country. I also don't know whether I'm proud of that fact or embarrassed by it. You might say that I'm going through a patriotic self-crisis.

The cruise has been fan ...

We had a whole day of just hanging around Corfu town so we went for some breakfast and then picked up our laundry and popped back to the hotel to pack our bags. The weather is not so good today raining and a little cloudy so for the most part of the day we just mooched about shops and did some stuff on the internet. The batteries in the camera keep going so as soon as we can get some good ones then we will post the pictures.

As it was the friday before the ...

... back to the hotel and booked a really nice place in Sorrento with a swimming pool just hope its open the pool at this time of year and its only 7 days now till Danielle comes to meet us in Italy I am so excited to see her.

Met some English men travelling around there were about our age and they were dead nice so asked them did they want to come for a quick drink with us and we went for some wine. Then for the most food in the world both Ian ...

Got up and decided that I was not going to stay here for the 3 nights that we had booked and did not mention it to Ian but told Brian that we where checking out tomorrow instead of Friday, I just cant stand it and did not want to stay any longer could not shower or anything and needed to get some washing done but saw someones washing that had been done looking grey and dirtyier than before lol.

So told Ian that we where going to find ...

... really fun and an aussie guy and a turkish guy. Oh there was one english guy sorry who had come out to do some work there on his computer to relax for a week.

The dinner was meant to be a 2 course greek dinner but we had a little greek salad with one cube of feta and an olive some bread then chicken and chips god knows how I ate it as the place is rank and I can only begin to imagine what the kitchen looks like.

Just a quick note. Spent a fabulous day on Corfu. This is what you think of when you think of Greece. We rented motor bikes and crusied the island. I will update more when we get back to Rome on Tuesday.

Love to all,
Davo and Janet

... how that many people got here, & where they stayed, etc, once they did. Press on to Igoumenitsa. Forecast not much better for next 3 days - and no boat to Italy that will allow us to stop off in Corfu. Ah well... starting to feel like things are coming to a slow end. We book for Bari for the following morning & do our best to amuse ourselves in uninteresting port!

... what I could find.

OMG.....I walked for MILES, and couldn't find a hotel. Of course, it began POURING RAIN as soon as I left. After about an hour of searching in the rain, I went back to the dock area. Dennis looked so sweet.....just sitting there waiting for me.

At this point, we just hailed a cab, and asked him to take up to the nearest, decent ...

Valtou (ML) -> CorfuTown (Corfu) -> Gouvia (Corfu)
Distance: 15M Wind: dead calm

Not a wisp of air today. That's ok, our plan is anchor below the castle of Corfutown and wile away the afternoon swimming and finishing our provisions before getting Hello Dolly back to SunCharter ...

... us to a squashy halt.

Delighted that there weren't many people at this beach, presumably because of a current lack of amenities, we waded into the still waters while inquisitive fish swam around our knees. The water was deliciously cool after a dusty fly-blown day and we floated about in the shallows, relaxation seeping into our bodies.

We rode home along the coastal road, skirting the base of Mount Pantokratora, passing through holiday villages set up ...