The Corfu Blog

December. Winter Solstice and the shortest day.

According to our local informants the north west is on the up and up! New design-oriented bars and tavernas are opening up in Arillas and the neighbouring villages and resorts, and up-market clientele are booking villas overlooking the sunset for their Corfu holidays.

We have been moaning about the rain for the last couple of weeks (funny how we have already forgotten the wonderful late October/early November days) but today everything has turned around yet again. 

We have been getting more enquiries than ever before about property in the south of Corfu. As Diana, our resident "southerner", will tell you, there are many advantages to the gentler, quieter south of the island. 

The other day I bought some paint and as usual when I got it home my other half told me it was the wrong paint. 

For the last couple of years easyJet flights to Corfu in early and late season have not been the bargains that they used to be.

After a day of storms, and another of mixed rain and sunshine, the combination of disappearing cloud and setting sun was truly magical last night.

The Greek Tourism minister has just announced that the Tourist Board will be promoting Greece as a year round destination, as if this is a great innovation.

After weeks of the most brilliant sunshine and warm temperatures - with thick fog either in the valleys (see photo) or on the mountaintops, we have finally had some rain.

Always recognizing the glory of a full sunset, the mountains of neighbouring Albania, seen here bathed in reflected light from the setting sun to the west, come a pretty close second.