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Welcome to San Stefanos (NW Corfu) => San Stefanos news and views => Topic started by: Dupnica on February 24, 2014, 08:00:14 PM
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The Arrilas Forum has a topic on the go just now that I thought we might "borrow" and see if it creates any interest.The jist of it is
"Things I am going to do this year on holiday that I have intended to do on previous visits but never quite got round to".
Let's face it we all go with good intentions about places we are going to visit or trips we are going to take or tavernas we are going to eat in
and when we finally get there we spend most of our time blobbing out and before you know it the holiday's over.
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Will be interesting to read what others put. My own personal one this time is to try and have longer walks and not just into the village and back
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Going to attempt the climb up to the taverna on the hill top,Akrotiri?.Seen some fantastic pics on here,it is a must do this time.Which is the easier of the routes please,I believe one sets off at the village cross roads?
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The easiest route I have found is a path just passed 3 w's bar. Nice steady climb up past some German apartments (can't recall what they are called)
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Jules, many thanks.
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The easiest route I have found is a path just passed 3 w's bar. Nice steady climb up past some German apartments (can't recall what they are called)
Tried several different routes up to the top but never that one.Are the apartments called Uranos by any chance?
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We're going to try to eat in some of the tavernas we've missed in the last four visits: Fantasea and Evino's to start with.
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Best route up in my opinion is from crossroads towards Ozzy Oil/Perros etc. Just keep going. Its a decent surface with a couple of bends. The road then forks.
Take the right fork and follow the road straight on. You will see a sign for Gravia and it will be on your left as you reach the headland. Turn right for Akrotiri.
When you leave Akrotiri turn right then right again..... this road takes you on a steep but short downhill climb.
You will come to the Tsaros pool and bar on your right...... nice place for a swim and another pint.... all welcome
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Best route up in my opinion is from crossroads towards Ozzy Oil/Perros etc. Just keep going. Its a decent surface with a couple of bends. The road then forks.
Take the right fork and follow the road straight on. You will see a sign for Gravia and it will be on your left as you reach the headland. Turn right for Akrotiri.
When you leave Akrotiri turn right then right again..... this road takes you on a steep but short downhill climb.
You will come to the Tsaros pool and bar on your right...... nice place for a swim and another pint.... all welcome
That's a nice walk Gav but there are shorter routes if you are really thirsty.
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This year i hope to attend more sasparela bars....avoid all greek food that is cooked in olive oil,go jelly fish hunting and eat in the smoking areas.......
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The quickest route is to turn sharp left past the Juice Bar on the beach road (just opposite San Stef Travel - otherwise known as the abode of the Three Graces of Agios Stefanos). Just keep going up past Tsaros - it's not that bad - and then turn left at the T-junction. (If you don't turn left or right you will fall 100 feet into the sea). Small rise takes you to Akrotiri. Try the smoked salmon salad - it's fabulous.
If you are (sensibly) staying on the old village, there's a nice, reasonably gentle, route. Turn left up the hill just before the church on the harbour road and follow the track. This takes a right turn and brings you out at the top of promontory, and you can stroll down with great views until you reach Akrotiri. Did I mention the smoked salmon salad?
There's a variation on this route for the impatient. Where the track turns right, go up the hillside, squeeze through the fence gaps, and you will end up in Arianna's. This is a hut and gardens, where you can buy a much needed drink. You may well encounter the lovely little girl after whom the enterprise is named. She has an English mother, and you will not need to speak pigeon Greek. She may well dance, sing, recite and generally perform her best acts for you. If you're a primary school teacher on holiday I'd give this one a miss, otherwise, it's lovely.
Akrotiri is a beautiful bar, and in our opinion one of the treasures of the village.
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As well as visiting named bar like everyone else for said sunset pics and smoked salmon salad I think its high time after 4 previous hols that the wife and I paid our first visit to Ozzie Oils,very probably on BBQ/Kerry singing night and finally experience what all the fuss is about!! 8) 8) 8)
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I promise this year I won't let Dimitri take me, and a partner in crime to Sidari, to a foam party, where I will enjoy myself just a little too much, loose my key, return to the complex, find the front door locked, steal Dimitri's ladder, walk around the poolside in the style of the Chuckle Brothers, use the ladder to climb onto the bar roof, make my way to the patio doors, think they are open, but unfortunately discover they're not by walking into the glass with such force that the bottles in the bar below rattle and dogs bark, and spend the next day attempting to disguise the mother of all hang overs.
But the problem is Dimitri is very persuasive, and I am weak.
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Best route up in my opinion is from crossroads towards Ozzy Oil/Perros etc. Just keep going. Its a decent surface with a couple of bends. The road then forks.
Take the right fork and follow the road straight on. You will see a sign for Gravia and it will be on your left as you reach the headland. Turn right for Akrotiri.
When you leave Akrotiri turn right then right again..... this road takes you on a steep but short downhill climb.
You will come to the Tsaros pool and bar on your right...... nice place for a swim and another pint.... all welcome
Gav's right, this is the best route, maybe a bit longer but nowhere near as steep and on mostly Tarmac roads
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As well as visiting named bar like everyone else for said sunset pics and smoked salmon salad I think its high time after 4 previous hols that the wife and I paid our first visit to Ozzie Oils,very probably on BBQ/Kerry singing night and finally experience what all the fuss is about!! 8) 8) 8)
Ozzie Oil is great, Kerry's singing fantastic. Well worth a visit or three.
There's plenty of videos of her singing on Ozzie Oil BBQ night on Youtube
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Gav's right, this is the best route, maybe a bit longer but nowhere near as steep and on mostly Tarmac roads
It rather depends upon where you start from. Going that way you're also on the main road - the other routes are more "rural." Starting from the old village (Nafsika, Fedra Mare, Anatoli etc) you're better off with the Juice Bar/Church options. The "Juice Bar" way is fairly steep, but very short. The "Church" way is really not hard work. Of course, if, like Waspman, you're on a quad-bike and have descended from the Olympian heights of Romanza, the tarmac road is an advantage, although I've heard that riding on rough tracks helps to get rid of the cellulite on the bum (not that I've got any).
Whichever way you go, a glass of Retsina with the smoked salmon salad and great views of the islands will reward your efforts with a sense of joy, peace and fulfillment.
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Although we get out and about during the day we do tend to spend our evenings in the old part of the village.This year we are determined to throw
caution to the winds and venture to the "fleshpots" of San Stefanos on The Strip,perhaps see a tribute act!
I say this now,while I'm feeling brave,but I bet we'll get as far as Barras where it starts to get a bit lively and we'll turn tail and head back to the peace and quiet where we can chat to friends over a drink.Boring aren't we?
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As has been said on this site so many times, everything is so personal, however just an observation ......with regard to Ozzie Oils and bbq night.I love this place and think Kery's singing is as fantastic as the food there. The welcome is always warm as well! I have attended bbq nights for many years now and had a really good night. However last year I went along and found that there was a quiz going on after the food service and before Kerry sang. I found the style of this particular quiz very intrusive and it really spoiled our evening there. ( I am normally a very happy quizzer!) It's just an observation, but it was sufficiently bad to make us cancel our booking for the bbq the following week. I would still thoroughly recommend this restaurant and think it is well worth a visit or two, but unless you are happy with an experience which is a little more Thomas Bay than the original Ozzie Oils maybe avoid the bbq night. Then again ... if that's your thing it may well be an added attraction for you.
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We're going to try to eat in some of the tavernas we've missed in the last four visits: Fantasea and Evino's to start with.
We ate in both those last time and looking forward to doing so again! Also looking forward to meeting up again with you guys!! Will be fun.
We (well my intention anyway) intend to eat at all the beach restaurants for lunch and walk over to Arillas (can't remember how to spell this) oh and try to walk up to Romanza more than once thus time without nearly having a heart attack on the way up!!
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Talking of walks, is there a map of the area that show walks on a website, or to purchase anywhere? Thanks.
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The Marengo book is great - go to:
http://www.sanstefanos.co.uk/local-walks (http://www.sanstefanos.co.uk/local-walks)
Of course you can just pop into San Stefanos Travel, where a beautiful woman will tell you where to go!
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Thanks Jimbo!
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Definately Akrotiri, only downside with going in August is it can be too Hot,training now for it!
Also going to visit the Illias in Avliotes, Ozzy Oil and Boat trip to Errikoussa.
Looking forward also to Perros,Barras and Yannis grill,followed by lazy nights in Bar 38 and Athens bar.
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We're always saying what we'll do: hire a car and drive around the island, visit St George's Bay, jog along the surf at 6 in the morning, and so on.
After 48 hours of "acclimatisation" we're so chilled-out we frankly can't be bothered. That is the magic of the place. We're staying at the wonderful Nafsika again in July, and I know that there will be days when we won't be arsed to walk the thirty yards to the beach. Go with ambitions - but be prepared to dump them in the face of overwhelming laziness!!!!
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We're always saying what we'll do: hire a car and drive around the island, visit St George's Bay, jog along the surf at 6 in the morning, and so on.
After 48 hours of "acclimatisation" we're so chilled-out we frankly can't be bothered. That is the magic of the place. We're staying at the wonderful Nafsika again in July, and I know that there will be days when we won't be arsed to walk the thirty yards to the beach. Go with ambitions - but be prepared to dump them in the face of overwhelming laziness!!!!
we are going to hire a car this year, last time we hired a quad bike, we stay at the Romanza and last time we went I got up early walked down to the beach and right to the harbour then back throuh the town was lovely walking through the town so early, the only people I saw was at the bakers :)
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Looks like we might overlap by a few days Jimbo - see you there!
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Terri - Brilliant. 11th to 25th.
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Only a couple of days then - we arrive on 21st :)
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It's possible to drink a lot of Mythos in two days!
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Terri - Brilliant. 11th to 25th.
Well Jimbo we're there ay exactly the same time, staying at the Fedra so I'll be walking past the Nafsica everyday. I'll look out for you to say hello. Will you look as you do in your photograph?
I'll be the 6'1" bald guy, approx 16 stone if the diet goes well between now and then and a Welsh accent if you hear me talk. Always walk to get a paper at around 2pm each afternoon and stop off occasionally for a drink or two along the way.
Hope I bump into you.
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The Marengo book is great - go to:
http://www.sanstefanos.co.uk/local-walks (http://www.sanstefanos.co.uk/local-walks)
Of course you can just pop into San Stefanos Travel, where a beautiful woman will tell you where to go!
I'll probably not pop into San Stefanos Travel then, of late I've tired of beautiful women telling me where to go!
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I'm half-Welsh. My mother came from Merthyr. The picture was taken at Little Prince when I was not at my best, but just say "Where's Jim?" The will know.
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We're inclined to agree with stressed 0506, love Ozzie oils and the menu there is great. We will definitely eat there at least once if not many more when in San Stef in August. However... and its a big however, we will probably avoid the BBQ night. We have gone to this for several years, its always been great value and a great ambiance until last season. We didn't enjoy the style of the quiz and the level of seriousness which was obviously required. A bit too much enforced fun for our liking.
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Is anyone going to go South of the town? If so I can arrange/suggest an intinery with car hire for you, you really cant do this in one day, it takes on a direct car drive NW SS to Kavos 2 hours each way so that's 4 hours out of your day. That's before you have had a coffee/lunch etc so why not think what you are missing out of in the South of this beautiful island. Korisson Lake, (Flamingoes at certian times of the year and a preservation area) Marathias Beach, Lefkimni. St George South, the lovely fishing harbour of Petriti etc etc and then the history of Achilleon Palace, Pelekas Beach Sunsets and oh so much more........ So far all the posts have suggested some lovely spots here in NW and NE but that's only half the island.......... I would suggest a simple b/b overnight stay you will really then take in all Corfu offers all its visitors......
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My holiday promise this year is going to have to be the same as a lot of you, I plan on taking a walk up to Akrotiri. We visited for the first time last year and had breakfast up there, not only are the views beautiful but the place itself is stunning. ;D
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My holiday promise this year is going to have to be the same as a lot of you, I plan on taking a walk up to Akrotiri. We visited for the first time last year and had breakfast up there, not only are the views beautiful but the place itself is stunning. ;D
If you wander up before the streets are well aired it is not too hot and the smell of the wild herbs is gorgeous !
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Thanks Ioanna, I'm wanting to go up with my parents as they didnt come with us last year but my mum has had a knee replacement, which route is the best? ???
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Thanks Ioanna, I'm wanting to go up with my parents as they didnt come with us last year but my mum has had a knee replacement, which route is the best? ???
If you take it slowly you will be ok ! From the village take the little road up that runs alongside Fantasea and foll ow it all the way to the top , best time is early morning before it gets too warm - good luck , I am sure you will enjoy it .
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I like the route up past Perros and EFI
Longer but very steady and not too steep
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It is 11 years since we have been San Stef. This time we are just the 2 of us, son is 20 and at Uni. This holiday we are going to go and see Lake Korrison, Mon Repos, Archillion Palace and Kalami. These are things we would have liked to do 11 years ago, but a 9 year old is not the company one needs on trips like that. He is now miffed we are going back to Corfu without him, but hey, we may be back.