San Stefanos Online ~ North West Corfu

Okay - found it. I've asked them to let me know which room they were in case there is an issue, because we're back in a couple of weeks and I can point it out.

All I can say is that all the people whom I have recommended on TripAdvisor have had a great time and are going back. Mind you, there are those who are killing their children by spraying every surface with anti-bacterial destroy-your-immune system stuff.

I can only imagine what they'd have said 30 years ago! 

Wise decision! It's raining here with about a sixty mile an hour wind blowing.

Lofty - profound sympathy and apologies.

We were in our local Italian restaurant last night and there were loads of raucous Brits throwing bread-sticks for waiters.   

I take your point, Sandra, so let's imagine we're having this discussion in the bar!

We quite often take food to eat on the beach for lunch. We boil some eggs and buy spanakopita in the bakery and tomatoes in the supermarkets. Other days we grace the Havana Bar with our presence.

Presumably the much-maligned Italians are buying something somewhere. The ferry from Brinidisi to Corfu takes 7.5 hours, and a bus from Corfu Town would be a couple more. These are hardly day-trippers. They must be staying somewhere. I haven't so far seen any 737s from Palermo landing on the nudist beach, although I have seen a few German Jumbos. They are then paying 7.5 Euros per brolly and beds. Unless they're carting vast quantities of salami in with them they have probably been to a shop.

On a typical Sunday large numbers of Greeks arrive from Corfu Town. They don't usually hire sunbeds - they camp beside them and between them. They frolic, shout, and spray sand everywhere. They shout a lot. They have free-range kids. They play football and sometimes the ball hits an obese Brit lying like a half-cooked pink turkey on the beach. Should we ban the Greeks from their own beach?

That's life. That's beaches. If you don't like this you might as well hire a boat and go off and find a quiet cove, or stay in the hermetically-sealed environment of the Delfino Blu.

Don - I thought you'd never ask.

Yeah, yeah, yeah!

Lovely way to go to Corfu Town - the sea is flatter than the road:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR505EKpzW0

Great trip this year available from the Goddesses at San Stefanos Travel. Up the highest mountain (Pantakrotor) and to the abandoned village of Old Perithia. Great food in the taverna at Perithia. Well worth doing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCM68g51zbA