Corfu - the first!

Now it is time to tell you a bit about my holidays on Corfu.We spent 14 days in a 4**** Hotel in Moraitika on the south eastern coast of the island.

Corfu is gorgeous place - 3 million olive trees and 113 000 islanders on an island which is only 641 square kilometres. Kékira is the capital and it is especially charming with the small alleyways and little shops and tavernas everywhere - at least when you get past all the souvenir shops. The old town bears definite signs of the Venetian conquerors and does not really look Greek. Even though it was already mid of September when we arrived, the island was still green, due to the high humidity and the huge number of olive trees.

Unfortunately most of the beaches are not sandy but pebbly. For sandy beaches one has to drive to the western coast of the island. There are no hotels on the western coast, as they do not have any freshwater there. So the beaches are quite deserted and absolutely beautiful, especially at this time of the year when the high season is already over. The water had 24°C, so quite warm, at least for me - for Hildegard it was a bit too cold!

The landscape is quite varied and I had never thought that the island is so mountainous. The coastline changes every few kilometres. One time it is sandy and flat, another time one will find high cliffs or the olive groves reach right down to the pebbly beach.
We also went hiking one day or at least we tried. Unfortunately we were spectators of the worst storms in twenty years for 2 days and after 5 minutes we were soaking wet!
But apart from these two days, our holidays were great - sunshine and 30°C.