Yet another week of formalities, of achieving that much, but still seem to be constantly busy. On Tuesday I went down to the shops to get a card and present for Dad for Fathers day on Sunday and managed to head home just as it started to rain. Surprisingly, it’s not Father’s Day over here so finding something appropriate was a little more difficult than expected. By the time I got home, Matt had returned back from Portugal. I wrote in dad’s card and took it down to the post office to try and get it to New Zealand as soon as possible. I was told that even if I paid ₤50 they could not guarantee it would reach NZ in time for Sunday, so sorry Dad, but I went for the slightly more budget option ... read more

We got up about 10am, got ready, grabbed our crepe’s and panini’s and walked up to ‘Parc Montsouris’. We had our food on the park bench then had a walk around. We caught the Metro to Chalet and spent the afternoon looking around the Louvre - WOW!!! what an amazing place! There was so many thing to see. We had a look around the ‘Treasury of the World’ Exhibition which was showing ‘Jewelled Arts of India in the Age of the Mughals’. It was amazing to see how advanced and intricately beautiful the pieces were, even for things like swards. Check out the Louve website, you may have to look as past exhibitions if it is no longer under ‘current exhibitions’: http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home_flash.jsp We also got to walk though the remains of ‘The Medieval Lourve’, which is ... read more

The next few days was more of a week of formalities. Following a bit of a sleep in from our Greece trip, Leo headed back up to Cambridge. I showed Suz our photos and after having a Magners at The George that evening, we got into a bit of a cleaning and maintenance mode. We constructed a scaffold out of chairs and a bed-side table looking thing to reach the smoke detector in the hall way and then started attacking the lime scale in the bathroom basin. I finally managed to contact my bank in NZ to start the ball rolling on my money transfer, which was pleasing, as I was down to.. well not very much! The following day I moved out of the room that I had been renting since I arrived to hand ... read more

We struggled to get up and had to rush down to the bus stop at the far end of the shops. Thankfully the bus was also on Island time and arrived about 15 minutes late. We jumped on headed into Corfu Township on the east coast of the Island. We had a walk along the waterfront and found a nearby café for brunch. We wandered through the township and weaved our way through the narrow roads and alley ways between the tall, but very old buildings. There were definitely resemblances between the old Corfu Township, and the old township on the hill that we had visited on Tuesday evening, but on a much glandular scale. There was such a sense of history in a place where pathways are still paved with stone and building look like ... read more

Leo set an alarm for 9am, but after repetitive presses of the snooze button, it was 10.05 before we knew it. We jumped out of bed and quickly went out to the pool area for our “10am” meeting with the Med life rep, who told us about what there was to do within the area, Island and also day excursions etc. We booked a well recommended day trip on a boat to two nearby Islands, Paxos and Antipaxos, for tomorrow. We headed towards Lake Korission at the north end of the beach, mentioned in the meeting this morning. We stopped for a swim on the way on an empty stretch of beach and I made a little shady hut out of some driftwood that previous occupiers had started to string together. The water appeared to be ... read more