The Corfu Blog

Balmy weather tempted crowds of people into Corfu Town to watch the annual procession of bands, schools and priests.

It's not that we need to be shown what it is that we love about Greece, but this selection of photographs that is doing the rounds of the internet certainly helps to remind us!

My friend Joy, who lives even further up the mountain than I do - in Spring and Autumn her village is often swathed in low-lying cloud - made a very keen observation recently: "In Corfu you very rarely get to CHOOSE your dog".

Well, this certainly beats the 'Pay and Display' or multi-storey car parks in the UK! A sign behind one of our favourite bakeries in Acharavi (great coffee too!) directed us to Free Parking.

I love driving home from work watching the seasons change - almond blossom is now in bloom and the bright yellow of acacia trees brightens the landscape.

I wish that I could write an audio blog. Just been out on the upstairs terrace before going to bed, and there is a light breeze blowing a faint scent of wood smoke and hyacinth, a squashed moon on the wane, and the most amazing background buzz of hundreds of frogs way down in the valley below.

Many of our clients ask us not only to find properties to buy, but also to make recommendations for properties for them to rent for their holidays.

I'm definitely never going to make a wildlife photographer, but believe me, on the lower branch on the left of the olive tree is an owl.

I always reckon that January is the most miserable month here in Corfu, we seem to enter the greyest, dreariest time of the year. 

One of the things I have always loved about Greece is the way Christmas doesn't end on Boxing Day.