Blogs from Corfu, Ionian Islands, Greece, Europe - page 17

I left off 4 days ago in Rome with a vague idea that I was going to Corfu, Greece. Alas, I have arrived at The Pink Palace. But the travel itself was an adventure I never expected. So I get to Bari, Italy at about 22:35 and have no idea where I'm going to stay. It's late so everything is closed. I walked out of the station thinking ... well I guess I'll just walk until I find a place. But all the shady looking characters walking around made me second guess myself. Now traveling alone I had to consider I no longer had the "safety in numbers" game working for me. I determined that I should find another group of people and follow them to wherever they are staying. After a few minutes I see ... 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

Hello from Greece!!! We arrived today after an over night ferry ride from italy. We got very little sleep cause they had a big dance on the heli-pad deck so after 2 hours of sleep we drove to our hotel and slept in the lobby for a couple hours until we could check in. We also were told by our tour guide that in Corfu everyone has to do a dare. The tradition is that you go to dare someone and then once you have thought of the most awful dare you write it down and then the guide told us that instead of giving the dare to someone else we had to do our own dare that we wrote down which was a unpleasant suprise for some people. Mines not that bad i have to ... read more

Well corfu is the best place ever i went on a booze cruize with a shit load of people for the day. Did some cliffe jumping and went to this cool cave around the island it was awsome. Met so many cool people here, everyone is canadian its sweet. So when i got from the booze cruize i met up with sean, he wasnt impressed but its not my fault he wouldnt get up the lazy ass. Second day there we rented quads for the day and went around the whole island it was sweet doin some mad fish tailing it was good times wish all my friends where here to, but oh well maybe next time. Tonight is the toga party so we are gonna get pretty sloppy it should be good, the weather has ... read more