San Stefanos Online ~ North West Corfu

This is the new name for the old Zest for Life JuiceBar.

For Newbies, it’s on the LHS as you head down to the beach just before the cross roads at San Stef travel.

The lady who runs this is from Avliotes and used to work in Sidari hotels. Her and her daughter are delightfully friendly.

We ate here during our rainy Tuesday lunchtime and were really pleased with how tasty her food was. In fact even topping it off with two beers before setting off on our walk to Magaloudes. We also used it for ‘beach baguettes’ one day and she made us our packed lunch for the journey home.

Give her a try this summer, it’s good see new local talent giving it a go.

Only another 7 days until we are there 😀

Well Chrissie D, if you only have 6 days to go then hopefully this little clip of the Beachcomber Sunset last night puts you right in the mood

We had another couple of bevvies in the Little Prince bar with Jimbo and Gillie last night. Great fun. For those still to come, the cocktail of choice in LP, is the WooWoo   

This is our last day, so we will go full tilt on the beach and then finish off with the Greek Night at Manthos, including the handsome Billy, ex Romanza and Zorbas.

It's tough

We took advantage of the cooler but dry afternoon yesterday to go walking.

Magaloudes, (apologies for spelling), can be reached by heading up by past the tennis courts, the Rose Garden apts and then when you get to the junction for heading to Avliotes and the football pitch take the opposite direction and follow a path up through the olive groves. It's a bit steep in parts, but door to door took about 90 minutes.

The village is small, but pretty with a torpedo! a bakery and a big church. The views inland across the valley to the east are spectacular.

From there, if you take the Arillas road, you can walk to Corfu Brewery in 25 minutes, mostly downhill  for a well earned pitstop.

After the brewery, you have another 20 minutes walk along the top of Arillas to Akrotiri Bar for a another refrrshment.... there is a theme here 

All told we walked for ~ 2.5 hours, a good way to spend a dull, cool afternoon.

Cheers

The rain update 

For a wee flavour of what's happening right now, I hope you can view this link of Nonda's at this evening at 7.30pm. To be fair, it did clear up this afternoon, and hopefully this is the last of it. A sort of 15 minutes 'last hurrah' of the rain.



https://youtu.be/UB_cahx6bi4

Per the excellent weather forecast, we have heavy rain this morning. It started in earnest around 6.45am.

If the BBC rolling map plays fair, we should have seen the worst by midday. For us that means until then, it's backgammon on the terrace with coffee and cake 

On the plus side, we did have a big full moon last night, which is always pretty to look at and pick out the brightest stars.

Beautiful and breezy today. Spent some time at the little church this morning. Always good to pause and reflect.

Lazed away the afternoon poolside at Nonda's flicking between the cricket and the tennis...... with a Royal Ionian Pilsner on one side whilst Mrs Lofty reads away on the other side.

Hope Buttler and Stokes get the job done.

there is a big Scottish wedding in resort.

Now, that could be record bar sales for the village..... ever!! . I need to find out more. 

Remembering it's 8 years since we were last here, we really believe that the beach is transformed.

It was always a highlight of the village, but it is much wider and tidier now. Also with 4 rows of upgraded loungers with deep beds including bottles of water, it really is excellent, and dare I say it, more modern. The 180 beach bar is also a terrific addition.

Bravo to all those behind the improvements, what a difference its made. It is lovely.