First Few Days in Corfu...

After a wonderful dinner and long sleep, we began our adventures in Corfu.  Corfu, is the english word for this very famous Greek Island which is part of a group of Islands known as the Ionian.

The largest of the Ionian it is 100 Km long and very busy with resorts, cruise ships, and villas.  It is also known by the Greeks here as Kerkyra also spelled Kerkira.  There are at least two names for everything here and then there is the traditional greek spelling.  It is very easy to get lost in Old Corfu as the streets are in Old Greek and it is hard to determine where you are!

Sadly, we discovered as we finished the delivery from Montenegro to Greece that something was not quite right with our water maker.  So, we have employed an expert here to try to figure it out.  At the moment it looks like a bad pump but we will learn more by tomorrow.

We also discovered the boat bottom needed diving so we hired another fellow who took care of that.

We are fine with staying here for a few days to get things organized and all the systems on The Lodge up to par as there is much to see and experience on Corfu before moving on.

We also noticed the bottom needed cleaning and as usual there is always more laundry!

We did manage to find our way to Old Corfu last night.  What a phenomenon this place is!!!  We have not seen so many tourist stores and people in our travels so far including Rome!

The most unusual thing I stumbled upon was a "Fish Spa".  Clients actually pay money to dip there feet and shins into an aquarium full of tiny fish that attach themselves like leeches and eat the dead skin from your body.  Yes.... Folks are paying money to do this.

I took a photo of a couple from Rome who were enjoying the fish spa when I walked in.

We only spent about an hour in Old Corfu as we were ready for dinner and sleep but will return this afternoon to do some more exploring.

Who knows what we will find?!

                Taken from the back of our rented scooter while driving to Old Corfu.

      This is a crazy place to drive!  I think they learned from the Italians in Rome how to drive like this...

  Rob in the Scooter Line up - There were streets and streets and streets just like this - We got in further than most by following some locals

Walking in Old Corfu Town

  Market in Old Corfu

  The Fish Spa....They look happy having their feet nibbled on by all those little fish!

                One of Many tacky T-Shirts - Most too rude to show here...

    Amazing how street after street is full of these shops all selling virtually the same things - Sponges, slippers, T-Shirts, Honey....

                View From Kontokali Bay Resort where we enjoyed a great lunch on Wednesday.  Just an hour after I took this photo, the heavy NW winds blew through and brought 20+ knot winds and cleared out the sky.  The Temperatures dropped significantly which was a great relief from the heat we have been experiencing all through the med! - See below...

                Now we can see Albania and the sea is churning up - The attendents scurried to lower all the Umbrellas!

                View from Kontokali Bay Resort looking toward the north east part of Corfu

  Map of Corfu.  We are just north of Old Corfu in Gouvia

                The Gouvia Marina - Kontokali Bay Resort and Spa just beyond the marina

Albania is in the background across the Adriatic