San Stefanos Online ~ North West Corfu

As a resident: juice, tea, coffee, croissant one day, meat and cheese the next, toast, jam/marmalade. You can have extras like boiled eggs etc at a small extra charge. Of course, that was last year - this year may be slightly different.

Thanks, Carl and Julie! It's taking forever for reviews to get through. The publishing site says that book-vetting will be slow at the moment. Probably means that Amazon have sacked a lot of people.

Thanks, Sellsy. Sales are trickling in. There are no published reviews so far - but today there is one five star assessment, which is flattering. I have no means of knowing who it was. All I can do is to press on with the sequel - not because I expect to make a lot of money, but because I enjoyed writing the first book, and I hope San Stef fans will enjoy the familiar landscape.

Nice to to see the Nafsika pool full and looking very inviting. Just seventeen days until the season starts in earnest!

If you want to know how I described it - which you may not - get the book. The Kindle version costs about the same as a pint of beer, and you can read it on phones, tablets, laptops and, of course, Kindles.

What I actually think about Sidari is that it's a rather sad place. It does not have the village feel of Agios Stefanos. It's spread out over a large area and looks like a cheap package-tour operation. It's central street is lively in a commercial way, but lacks a sense of a real place. I would never stay there again.

I suspect whoever is in charge of releasing reviews on Amazon likes Sidari. I get emails from people who posted a review a week ago and it's still not there. Maybe they're all awful - at this rate we'll never know. I set out to write another novel before I was eighty or dead and I did it. Now I want to write two, so I'm 6,000 words into the sequel. I just hope people will enjoy it.

Thanks! Yes - it's profiling - but they didn't ask me, or even tell me. I mean, I'm just the writer.

Thanks, Charlie. How are you doing?

Spiros was watering plants at Nafsika yesterday, and there's a pipe in the pool now. Nothing like watching other people work!