Day 6 - Corfu, Greece
This port was the relaxing / shopping port and probably our 2nd favorite spot after Kusadasi, Turkey. We didn’t have to tender in, so could walk directly off the ship. That is a huge time saver and so much more relaxing to start off the visit.
Robyn got back yesterday after the day in Santorini and went to sleep around 7PM. She proceeded to sleep until 9AM this morning, missing dinner, dancing, etc. I had a whole evening set for her after the formal dinner. No, I’m just kidding. I watched matches at the French Open until about 9PM and then went to sleep myself. I definitely needed the rest and the day at sea tomorrow is going to be much needed as well.
So we left the ship at around 1:30 and proceeded to head into town. We walked around shopping and just taking in the local scenery and people. It is a great town and would be one that I would definitely recommend to anyone in the future. Robyn got some nice wooden spoons and flip flops (not wooden ones) and some European suntan lotion that has Mexoryl in it, which is supposed to be great as suntan lotion and also for you skin (but not yet approved by the FDA).
We went to the church that holds the remains of the Patron Saint of Corfu, St. Spyridon. It was beautiful inside and we light a candle but that station for them was outside because they didn’t want the candle’s burning inside the church as a safety measure to prevent fire.
We stopped at a cafe called Cafe Au Chocolate, (which sounds like French to me), and the girls + Gary sat and had some ice cream and drinks while Alan and I took the short walk over to the old fort near the ocean. Corfu has both and old fort (near the sea) and a new fort (in land). Old fort was to protect against invasion from the sea (with a double wall and double moat) and the new fort was to protect from invasion from the land… Guess the Corfu people got invaded a lot (Burton keep the comments clean).
After walking around the old fort (I really keep wanting to write fart instead of fort and say reference wikipedia entry for Rick Lubin to see an old fart… just kidding Hillary. I know Rick will never be reading this … haha) we headed back to town and met up with everyone and went over to a restaurant right over in the center of town to have some traditional greek food. Robyn, Gary and I had Gyro sandwiches, Jamie had a greek salad, Alan and Nancy had the special (which was a big plate of a bunch of stuff) and Linda had pizza… (which they had to go to a different restaurant to get for her). I think for Linda that makes pizza in every port. Oh wait, no pizza in Santorini, so not every port. I tried both fried eggplant and fried feta. Like the fried feta, tasted like fried mozzarella. Not as excited about the eggplant. I think that is an acquired taste.
(writers note … man - it seems like these posts center around food. Sorry. We definitely did more then eat along the way.)
We got back on the ship and Robyn, Jamie and I went up to the solarium pool and took a swim to cool off. It is a salt water pool. Hmm - I wouldn’t have thought that, so then I had to take a shower to get all the salt off me.
Tomorrow is a full day at sea and then back in Venice for the long flight home.
Thanks for following along our journey we are almost back home.
Ps. The correct name for the Greek cookie goes to Geoff. For correctly naming, yet not spelling, Kourabiethes. I owe you 1 euro.
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