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San Stefanos news and views / Quick poll for the Beer drinkers:
« on: July 22, 2016, 05:33:10 PM »
What is your favourite Corfu Beer?:

corfub by Andy Davies, on Flickr

  • Red Ale Special
  • Dark Ale Bitter
  • Amorosa Weisse
  • Contessa IPA
  • Royal Ionian Pilsner
  • Ionian EPOS
  • Ionian Gold
  • 1842 Ginger Beer

I think I tried the Red and the Dark Ale last year, in Agios Georgios, but I'd really like to try the Weisse...

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San Stefanos news and views / Brexit and all that rubbish
« on: June 28, 2016, 04:18:10 PM »
I voted remain, but I'm not a sore loser. I'm going to get on with it!

I've also been going to Greece for the last 25 years.  I've been to fabulous places, Kefalos on Kos, Pefkos on Rhodes, Lassi in Kefalonia, Argassi, Alykanas, and Kalamaki, and last year Agios Georgios a few miles away from San Stefanos.

Every holiday I've ever been on in Greece has been fabulous. The Greeks are a wonderful nation, full of wonderful people who care about trying to make our holidays the best they can.  I can remember arriving in Kefalos in the middle of the night just after my wife had had a big operation, I was triple stressed and I started making a list of issues in my head, probably about 30, of things to fling at the rep and the appartment owner.

In the morning we had, a couple of hours to ourselves, walking around feeling the sunshine on our faces, being met with smiles and "kalimeras".  When I met the rep and the owner they asked me if there were any issues - I said - "Yes, there's no tin-opener" ...... No f***ing tin opener - that's all I could complain about! (we had a new tin-opener in an hour!)

This is my first holiday to San Stefanos.  I'm staying at Naksika, and because of the power of the internet, I've read all the great reviews.  Not one politician, not one xenophobe will spoil my holiday.  I'm looking forward to the best holiday I'm ever going to have with fantastic people.  I'm going to buy beer, eat fresh beautifully prepared food and  I'm going to (attempt to) juggle my football on the beach and pretend know I'm better than Wayne Rooney and the other sub-standard £150,000/week footballers who so sadly let us down yesterday.

Anybody who is going to San Stefanos on holiday, and will be there in August between 12th-26th look out for the pink headed ball juggler on the beach and invite me to share a beer or two,  and I'll join you and promise to make your holiday a little jollier!

Enjoy your holidays everyone, you've deserved them!

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San Stefanos news and views / Mini Train
« on: June 01, 2016, 01:04:17 PM »
There is an interesting thread on Facebook this morning regarding the possibility of a mini train running through the resort.  As there are a lot of committed regulars here, I wondered if they had any thoughts on this topic.

Here is the thread on Facebook for reference: https://www.facebook.com/groups/900108303350223/permalink/1298344863526563

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San Stefanos news and views / Map of San Stefanos
« on: January 15, 2016, 06:08:00 PM »
I know some people like to find their own way and explore when they get to a new place.  Having kids I need to have a good idea where things are before I get there.  I haven't been to San Stefanos before and I can't find a decent resort map on this forum or online anywhere else.  So I've created a new online map here: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=z5HnXECn4evQ.kiAiiCr43kPY

If the admins feel it would be useful, then they can embed it anywhere on the site.  I plan to update it and improve it as I get closer to the holiday.  It might be nice to show say, supermarkets, locations with wifi etc. etc.  If anybody has any information on any of the locations I've placed, please respond on this thread or send me a message.  If I've mis-located something or you have something to add, I'll need the longitude and latitude values to add the pin.  To do that go to a "normal" Google maps page, right click the location of the thing you want to write to me about and select "What's here?" The long and lat values are the numbers at the bottom, just cut and paste them into your message.

I hope the map is useful to new and existing members.

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Information and help please / Drone Cam footage
« on: January 13, 2016, 12:47:57 PM »
Hi, last year my family and I visited Agios Georgios.  It was my first visit to Corfu since I was 25, when I went to Kavos.  I don't remember too much about that first visit  ;) so last year through sober eyes I was able to see the beauty of the Island, particularly the NW region.  We visited Arillas, but managed to get lost and visited a chicken farm instead of San Stefanos.

As ever whenever I go somewhere new, I "Google Frenzy" and try to turn up as much as possible about the place I'm visiting.

I've read through the forum and haven't seen any reference to Corfu Films on Vimeo.  So I thought I'd share the following drone cam video, apologies if it has already been posted:

https://vimeo.com/corfu/san-stefanos

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