The Corfu Blog

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?

What a wet, cold and miserable month April has been up to now. Today, however, I think we can say confidently that summer is on the way. 

We have just received the following report from our friend at Foreign Currency Directwhich might be of interest to anyone wondering whether now is the time to take the plunge and buy in Greece.