
Salt flats at Lefkimmi, Corfu
Wed, 6th Jun 2012Stilts at the salt flats - a romantic Corfu unknown to most holidaymakers. It really is like taking a walk back in time when you visit this remote part of the south east coast of Corfu.
Stilts at the salt flats - a romantic Corfu unknown to most holidaymakers. It really is like taking a walk back in time when you visit this remote part of the south east coast of Corfu.
Almost an hour and a half from our mountainside house, the remote south of the island is somewhere that we really do not often visit.
If you see Susan and I disappearing into a tree in the next few weeks, the chances are we will be picking mulberries.
There isn't a vast amount to amuse us at the moment, frustration with the government (or non government), annoyance with very slanted way the foreign press are commenting on the situation here, and general European gloom.
Politics is so dominant these days - every conversation, every TV programme, every radio interview, even in the fish shop in Tzavros buying fresh crab for today's lunch (Yummy!),
I think I actualy have a rare breed of dog - the Corfu Tortoisehound.
So people weren't convinced by the advertising campaign to persuade them to holiday in Britain, what a surprise.
According to this article it will be worth finding a vantage point to watch the full moon rising tonight.
With the UK apparently drowning in torrential rain whilst still under a hosepipe ban, I spent a happy afternoon yesterday working really hard showing a plot of land to a client.
IF this is true, does it mean that someone is actually listening, and has realised the overwhelming importance of tourism in Greece, and understood how much difference it can make - and that we are no longer in the 1970s when Greece was at its tourism peak?