We had a week of classic holiday in Corfu. It’s a beautiful island of lush vegetation (totally unlike the Dodecanese and Cyclades). People have visited here for many hundreds of years from the Emperors Tiberius and Nero (who came to worship at the temple of Zeus in Kassiopi) to Gerald Durrell of “My family and other animals” to Princess Margaret. Many others have followed in their steps.
We stayed in a sweet cottage on a bay just round the headland from Kassiopi in the North of the island. The garden went straight down to the beach. It was the perfect place to stay with children, we had Alfred’s first birthday there. We all had a great time.
It was a week of swimming, paddle boarding, watching fish, finding sea snails, and eating well.
And this is the drawing of the week, a joint effort between me and Arthur.
Corfu town is handsome with fine Venetian buildings, and a lot of shops! The vast cruise liners line up in the port but here at 6pm the Liston arcade along Spiliada Square was empty!
And so we say a final farewell to Greece, do a full circle back first to Igoumenitsa and then Brindisi before heading North.
