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San Stefanos news and views / Re: Just back with a quick review
« on: August 30, 2012, 02:12:05 AM »
Just recently back from our honeymoon and also the first time to visit san stef!

When we arrived in Corfu airport and headed to the transfer bus a lady came over to us and asked if I was Julie :D and handed me a card!  It was from Sellsy (Kevin and Debbie)... that made our day!

We were staying at the Romanza, and who just happened to me our neighbours, Sellsy!  What a lovely couple they are, Richards a bit un-decided about Kevins music choice haha ;)

On arrival into our room at the Romanza we were greeted with a bottle of bubbly on ice from the hotel staff which was a lovely gesture and also a little present with card!

I could not fault the hotel at all, we were so happy with everything about the hotel (apart from the "short cut" up the cliff path from the beach haha).  We had a fabulous view from our balcony too.  We attended the Greek Night on Sunday with Sellsy and what a great time we had, Andreas even managed to drag Richard up to dance!  What made the night even better was when I thought I recognised a lady at the Greek night from home!  I was so sure it was her but did not want to go over... So Sellsy said he would go and ask.  Turns out she was from the other end of the country to me :D  Glad I did not ask her myself and he was the one to make a fool of himself haha.

As for the rest of our honeymoon we have no complaints there either.  We tried many different places to eat and did not once have a bad meal!
Tasty corner was the favourite for lunch, our pita Gyros which I had been having withdrawal symptoms from since last year.

We met some lovely local people on our honeymoon, everyone was so friendly and helpful which is such an important thing!  One couple in particular that really touched our heart was Julia and Nikos from Sotto Zero!  We sat for hours talking about our families and home lives with them.  It was so nice to see how much they value their children and their grandchildren.  We were very sad when we had to go and say goodbye to them both on Sunday :(  We will definitely going back to see them next year. 

We spent our days lying on the beach and swimming in the sea, such a relaxing time!  On an evening we were quite happy sitting in the peaceful bars watching all the passers by sipping our cocktails.

All in all we had such a great time and are already looking at holidays for next year with my 2 children, if we can wait that long!

I've already been recommending the place to everyone I talk to back home/work as its such a nice place to visit. 


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Information and help please / Disgusting!!
« on: August 30, 2012, 01:35:41 AM »
I know other people have mentioned the "donut man" in other topics but feel I should share this!!

Whilst on honeymoon last week in San Stefanos, lying on the beach taking in the scenery the donut man was heading towards us... Ignored him as had previous bad experiences with him in Arillas in the past few year!! After he walked past us he put his baskets down on the empty sunbed between me and my husband and an Italian family.  What he did next shocked both us and the Italian family that had 2 small children with them!!

The donut man walked in the very shallow water right in front of us and un buttoned his fly (trying to do it slyly, but obviously not sly enough) and urinated in the water right in front of us....  Then he buttoned his pants back up and went back over to his baskets without washing his hands or anything and started picking the fruit up in his baskets and arranging it!!! He then walked back down the beach trying to con some more people!  My husband and I just looked on in disbelief and so did the family! Its absolutely disgusting to think he is selling things to the public including children after doing things like that!!!

What makes it worse is that we were literally 2 minutes walk from havana beach bar where they have toilets amongst a lot of other places!!


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Information and help please / Re: Mosqitoes?
« on: June 02, 2012, 06:10:24 PM »
I usually use jungle extra strength which works well but last year I bought some stuffoff ebay called Repel 100 or 55 which is either 100% deet which is supposed to sting a bit but VERY effective if you have problems with getting bit.  I bought the 55 which is 55% deet and nobody in our group got bit once whilst in Arillas.  Its worth a try and not expensive.

 http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=160813842011

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San Stefanos news and views / Re: Market forces 2 for 1!
« on: June 02, 2012, 03:02:28 PM »
Wish I could go for the extra week but cant get the extra time off work!  Me and my partner (will be my husband then, getting married 15th august) fly in from Newcastle on the 20th August, staying at the Romanza :D  VERY excited, it will be our first time in San Stefanos, although we have been to Arillas the last 3 years in a row. 

Hope to bump into some of you on our trip!

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