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Welcome to San Stefanos (NW Corfu) => San Stefanos news and views => Topic started by: Dupnica on April 22, 2013, 07:04:11 PM
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Have you noticed the JCB has been on the beach the past two days? Yesterday they were clearing the seaweed and today they seem to be
re-directing the river back to it's original course,over the past few weeks the river seems to have edged ever closer to "the Waves" and they
won't want that on their doorstep.
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Hopefully the beach will be seaweed free for the early season visitors.
This photo was taken at the very end of May last year, the seaweed pile was all but gone on June 3rd. Hopefully this year it will be gone by the time the first flights arrive for the new season.
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They collect the seaweed quite often throughout the season.
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It's a never ending job.Looking forward to seeing the first sunbeds appear then we know our holiday isn't too far away.
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I bet Jimbo smokes the seaweed
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Yip - I sell it in Wales as posh lava bread.
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Have you noticed the JCB has been on the beach the past two days? Yesterday they were clearing the seaweed and today they seem to be
re-directing the river back to it's original course,over the past few weeks the river seems to have edged ever closer to "the Waves" and they
won't want that on their doorstep.
Blimey, thats a lot better than last year when it was early June before they cleared the beach properly.
Maybe they have seen the weather forecast for the weekend 28c and sunny, they might get a few day trippers!
Andy
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They probably want it cleared before they start their Easter celebrations.
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I bet Jimbo smokes the seaweed
Quality Gavlah! ;)
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Gavlah smokes it for sure and Pam-Lah eats it in sarnies...
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Usual old jokes.
I don't think they clear the seaweed to save Gavlah the embarrassment of girlie screams as he minces his way into the water.
It's a very good fertiliser, and comes in on the tide - a gift from Poseidon.
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They were working late last night the lorry had his headlights on going to and fro with loads of seaweed and Stavroula was there watching the
proceedings.Have you noticed she seems to sleep all day and come to life at night a bit like the Kavos lot.
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Just looked on the webcam and there're people on the beach and in the water ;D
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Yes was looking at webcam too this morning - nice to see some activity - makes our holiday seem nearer :D
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That also tells you that the icebergs have melted and heat returns...
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No sun beds on the beach yet. Can anybody remember what date they came out last year? I know they were out by 28th May at the latest.
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Not sure about last year but the year before we stayed at Margaritas from the 8th June the only sunbeds out the first week were what Waves put out and were free so we had Lunch or breakfast there as a bit of a thank you then all the Sunbeds arrived the second week so that was the middle of June when they got there Licences so not sure if that was later than usual
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Hi is it true that they are not putting sunbeds out. I read on another site that you collect your sunbed from the car park area at 60euro and take it were you want to be and return it at the end of the day and get 50 euro back.
surely if this is true it will affect trade at the Havana and the other bar down the other end of the beech.
harry
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Has I've just said on the chat site can't see it working what if you go for a spot of lunch someone could take your sunbeds and brolly back and claim 50 euros deposit love the beach but will have to think again if this happens
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What site have you read this on? This sounds like a terrible idea both for the tourists and the beach based business'. :o
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I suspect (if it's true) that the entrepreneur would be well advised to pre-order some crutches!
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Hi if you go on the site of the webcam live below the webcam is a forum it was on there.
Harry
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Can't find that forum Harry, but suspect this approach would not work very well because people are used to the existing, equitable, arrangement.
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I read that on the other forum, too. The person who posted it says they're checking with San Stefanos Travel to see if they can confirm or deny the rumour.
Looks like we'll have to wait and see!
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Hi Rover this is the sight it was posted on http://corfu.chatango.com/
harry
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Outrageous and silly idea. Just what do you get for your €10- two beds and a brolly, or a single one?? Bet the sales of lilos will rocket to avoid the possibility of having your beds took back if you happen to go off the beach for lunch!!!
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Not sure if these facts are entirely correct.Anon 0513 says that he has heard from San Stef,not San Stefanos Travel, Graham 999 is checking
with San Stefanos Travel and will post his reply when he hears from them.
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Thanks Harry. I agree with swedebasher, buy lilo's and cheap parasols, give them away when you go home.
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Just imagine if it gets windy,which it often does,there will be hundreds of lilos and parasols blowing up and down the beach
and floating out to Albania!
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Now I read these posts earlier today - so when I finished work today I asked around resort, no-one I approached all being locals knew anything about this perhaps its was posted on 1st April!!! As it sounds like Hi Ho Hi Ho it's off to work I go, after all how far can you carry your chair & brolly surely then the ones nearest the sunbed pound will survive and all other areas on the beach will be empty - anyway will await someone who knows to post - just sounds very off the wall to me........tell me its a joke or have I lost something in translation perhaps...... ???
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How can this be related to the cutbacks?
The sunbeds are independantly run by local people who pay for the licence, they will want as much income as possible and will know this idea is a non-starter.
No mention of this on the Agni Forum so I reckon its pure rubbish!
Andy
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Andy my thoughts entirely as well - along with anyone I have spoken to. I think they thought I'd been on the vino all day!!!!! P.S I hadn't as had been working...... might have one now though as home and the night is young.........
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Couldn't believe my eyes Lesley when I read it one of the best part of my holiday is going on that lovely beach chatting to the Sunbed men let's hope someone got it wrong as it's their livings that's at stake. Enjoy the vino Yammas
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I hope Don doesn't put his parasol up on the nude beach after his arrest last year
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Calm down folks! No reply was ever issued to anon0513 or to anyone else for that matter from San Stefano Travel confirming this rumour and it would seem that these stories are no more than that, just rumours.
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Rumour? Other forum? What is happening? Next we will be hearing that they have run out of ouzo!
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Now that would be serious!!
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It would be worse than that!
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I think the sunbed idea has its merits but it needs a bit of tweeking.
You go to the bar pay 60 euros get your bottle of ouzo take your empty bottle back and they give you 50 euros refund :P :P :P
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I can see where you are coming from, but not where you are going to.
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Why not take your towels to the beach with an umbrella from the supermarket?!
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We do use the nudist beach and there are no sunbeds down there, but we always support the local businesses, local tavernas, bars etc.
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Towels on the beach are great...but have you seen some of the ants that inhabit the sand? I have a theory that a lot of the bites/stings we blame on mossies, particularly on ankles and lower legs are from ants or other things at ground level.
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Towels and airbeds are all very well but what about the people with mobility problems who can't get on and off the ground or low level. I'm one of these and am not even sure if I can get on and off a sunbed :-\
I might have to ask some kind soul if I can borrow a plastic chair to sit on :(
What I really need is one of those white plastic loungers with arms, but they don't have them on the beach :( Thomas Bay Hotel have them round the pool, I might have to go there :D
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I doubt very much anything will change. It's one idiot posted as anon on a firum that has got everyone in a fuss.
Take it with a pinch of salt
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Agree with Gav about this.
Bee - the sunbeds outside Mango are firmer, higher and classier than the others. You might find fewer problems with them. Plus you get a free bucket of ice and a bottle of water. You can even get drinks and snacks delivered to you as you lie there like a princess!
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Agree with Gav about this.
Bee - the sunbeds outside Mango are firmer, higher and classier than the others. You might find fewer problems with them. Plus you get a free bucket of ice and a bottle of water. You can even get drinks and snacks delivered to you as lie there like a princess!
Must agree, beds outside Mango are awesome ;D ;D
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Towels on the beach are great...but have you seen some of the ants that inhabit the sand? I have a theory that a lot of the bites/stings we blame on mossies, particularly on ankles and lower legs are from ants or other things at ground level.
Yes I think you are right. I even got stung in the sea last time we were there, don't know what it was but it was something I trod on. Foot blew up like a balloon!! :'(
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Yes Bee, I know what you mean, my husband has mobility problems as he has Parkinsons, but he is more comfortable in the quietness down the nudie end, but unfortunately the sunbeds don't stretch that far, otherwise we would probably use them ;)
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To be honest I dont really like the beach but I go because Gill likes it, however, I insist on a good sunbed and parasol so I dont have to sit on the sand.
I would rather sit on burning coal than sand but hey thats just me!
Andy
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We always take some Antihistamine tablets (not cream) to help against reaction to stings/bites. There are certainly plenty of stingers and biters about!
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Love the beach for walking on but prefer to sunbathe by the pool
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Karen
There was a lad from up our way in Yorkshire who was in Zante with his girlfriend. He got off a boat and trod on something like you in the sea.
Foot swelled up and he went to the docs who gave him the usual jabs/tablets and sent him on his way.
Unfortunately he's now paralysed because of it!! Poor bloke. Apparantly these fish are common in Greece etc and some folk reat terribly to their stings
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Gav, that is terrible! I do react to bites and stings and have spent a lot of time at the docs in San Stefanos having steroid injections!! I take all the necessary precautions but sometimes they still get you!! It wouldn't stop me going though. 8)
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2266968/Sporty-student-paralysed-treading-SEA-URCHIN-holiday.html
Here you go
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I wouldn't worry so much about sea urchins in the sea around San Stefanos beach, not very common at all, In fact I've never seen one.
I was in Skiathos last August though and there were literally hundreds of them in the rocks just yards from the beach. I was surprised none of the restaurants had them on the menu tbh.
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Thanks Gav. I think I remember reading this at the time. He seems a positive young man, let's hope he improves. May stay out of the sea this year!........... :-\
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I also have never seen anything hostile, including sea urchins, in AS.
Best thing for sea-urchins is urine. Pee in a carrier bag and immerse foot. It's a kind of social thing, because you can get everybody to contribute!
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This sounds great fun! Need to find a bag with no holes in it though?
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It looks like they have piled up the seaweed like they did last year, ready for loading up and taking away. Hopefully then the sunbirds will appear!
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I also have never seen anything hostile, including sea urchins, in AS.
Best thing for sea-urchins is urine. Pee in a carrier bag and immerse foot. It's a kind of social thing, because you can get everybody to contribute!
Trust Jimbo to lower the tone ;D
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Still no sign of sunbeds on he beach!
You do despair of the Greek authorities sometimes, all that lost income for San Steph locals, the weather has been so good recently that the beach would have been very popular. San Steph is busy from this weekend onwards (the little prince is full) yet no one can sunbathe on the beach.
Anyone going to San Steph this week for its famous beach will be very disappointed and may never return, in these hard times when Greece needs every Euro it really isn't good enough :-[
Andy
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We go on Tuesday, and the lack of sunbeds doesn't bother us as not really beach folk. Maybe Manthos has got his free ones (if you buy a drink) at the bottom of his garden. :)
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It's looking like real progress has been made at the Manthos end of the beach, not so much the Havana end, can anyone confirm? Still no sign of the sunbeds?
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We go next Friday and to be honest the lack of sunbeds does bother us. we would spend some time on the beach and have no problem with paying the cost for four sunbeds. we're taking my in-laws who will struggle without. I might drop Cerys a line and see if they know anything, else although I know Thomsons aren't responsible I will ask them.
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We go next Friday and to be honest the lack of sunbeds does bother us. we would spend some time on the beach and have no problem with paying the cost for four sunbeds. we're taking my in-laws who will struggle without. I might drop Cerys a line and see if they know anything, else although I know Thomsons aren't responsible I will ask them.
Same with me. We'll have a toddler in tow so the beach will be central to our daytime activities, it's not quite as simple as just sitting on towels when little 'uns are involved.
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When we went in June 2011 it was the second week so 13th June before all the sunbeds appeared there was just a few put out by Waves that were free think to encourage customers which it did and we were very grateful as I had just had surgery and was unable to have laid on the beach which I love
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Last year the beach was full every day from 20th May onwards. By not having the sunbeds out there is literally thousands of euros not making the way into the local economy.
It seems crazy IF its a licensing issue, surely licenses etc should be organised during the winter months?
Hopefully for all the beach lovers the sunbeds make an appearance before the half term break next week.
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I can see sunbeds on the beach today blue ones and yellow ones so far.....
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That sound like good news Lesley, unfortunately the webcam seems to have died so we can't see them :(
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That sound like good news Lesley, unfortunately the webcam seems to have died so we can't see them :(
They are having an 'official sunbed unveiling' at midday I hear. ;D
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Sounds good
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Do we know who won the council sunbed auction this year - - - i.e. who is doing the sunbeds this year????
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Costas will be up the far end near the Havana bar.
Free ones are down there at the moment outside Mistral, Manthos, Waves, Athina, and Delfino Blu until May 27 official blast off.
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Certainly a big pile of something there today! Are there elephants in town?( 22/05/13)
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Virtually no beach today with the Ostria gale making the sea appropriate for surfers!
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Just been for a coffee in waves and watched the surfers. The sea was coming within a few feet of us but san stef still enjoyable and a lot warmer than home!
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Certainly a big pile of something there today! Are there elephants in town?( 22/05/13)
Possibly bulls*** --- now being forensically examined --- several suspects--- you know who you are - - -LOL
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The start of the week and the beach looking very good today, slight breeze, blue skies, gently lapping sea. Around 25c.
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Hi are the sunbeds out officially today there are some out now but not that many if they our out how much.
Harry
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Plenty of sunbeds outside waves and a single row outside Havana. The beach has been shrunk so much this year that only a single row is possible for now!
Just enjoying a couple of beers at Tsaros now and about to wonder down for dinner at Nafsika! I'll write a full update in a couple of days.
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The start of the week and the beach looking very good today, slight breeze, blue skies, gently lapping sea. Around 25c.
That sounds good to me and actually I hope it doesn't get much hotter that 25c 8) I can't wait for next week :)
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Beach is looking slightly different to last year due to the winter storms but hopefully is now starting to return to normal.
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Plenty of sunbeds outside waves and a single row outside Havana. The beach has been shrunk so much this year that only a single row is possible for now!
Just enjoying a couple of beers at Tsaros now and about to wonder down for dinner at Nafsika! I'll write a full update in a couple of days.
The trouble is it now seems to get smaller each year - and doesn't seem to get back to what it was....
Lets hope it doesn't go like Arillas, the Beach used to be massive 30 years ago...... I've never seen it so small.
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Tony, your quote "it seems to get smaller each year, I've never seen it so small". When we were in Tenerife a couple of weeks ago, Linda confided to Mrs Wasp that this was indeed the case!! It happens in old age!!
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You silly boy... they were talking about you!!! HaHa
I thought you knew.....