Sunday, June 17, 2007

Greece - sand, sea and the dangers of sailing




Like most of the passengers we thought the overnight Brindisi-Corfu took 8 hours and a cabin was a good idea. So the 3am arrival came as a bit of a shock. Some people in the bar had a waiter tell them not to bother going to bed because he was starting to wake people up.

Corfu Town at 3am is not much fun especially with a port full of depressed, pissed Liverpool fans lost on their way back from the cup final

Stayed in a lovely, very cheap apartment (93 pounds for the week) with a beautiful pool. It was very quiet, surrounded by countryside but only 5 minutes from the beech and bars. Spent a week doing very little, playing bingo, pub quizzes and watching pirate versions of Pirates of the Caribbean

Met our sailing friends in Lefkada Town. Lovely to see them all again and to be with a crowd. The sailing was lovely, jumping off the boat into a deserted bay is always a highlight, although having to swim round the occasional turd concentrates the mind and takes the edge off the fantasy of the perfect Greek island bay.

It was less eventful than other trips having realised it is a good idea to tie the boat up when you leave it in a storm. But Admiral Bob did manage to provide an entertaining evening by crushing his finger in between the wheel and the boat.

WARNING - the following photo may upset some people. It really is the offending finger and has nothing to do with the Roman items in the Napel Musuem's Secrete Room

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