Come in Corfu

 (Usual waiver applies to grammar, typos, spelling as I'm posting via  a small phone screen on the hoof 🤭, click on the pics to zoom in).

Yesterday had a day of travelling 🚕🚌🚌✈️🚕 and finally arrived in Corfu last night. 

We are staying in a little traditional cottage up a quiet footpath only lane. It's super cute but the only drawback is coming downstairs  -  you have to remember to duck or you could do yourself an injury 🤕.  Our neighbors are not tall 😉 little old ladies that wear black and it's lovely and quiet as there is no car traffic, yet it's only 10 minutes walk from all the action.

Woke up this morning ready to explore the old town and we started off to the coastal path where we saw three cruise ships had docked over night, uh oh! The old town was slammed with cruise folks.

There's a sense of dilapidated old world charm. Some magnificent old buildings that are crying out for a makeover. The building in the above pic would have been fabulous looking over the port back in the day. Edward Lear, the famous artist and writer,  lived here for many years. He was deeply captivated and called Corfu 'Paradise' and ' the loveliest place on earth'. I can only imagine how magical and unspoiled it must have been back then.

Corfu is known for its cobbled streets in the old town, the beautiful pastel coloured buildings and of course the beautiful  beach spots and blue, blue water. I gather latterly it's known for Mumma Mia and Alan and Amanda's Corfu experience 😁. It's certainly popular. 100,000 resident population and annually over four million tourists, yikes!

We just followed our noses and meandered through the old town dodging the big groups off the cruise ships.

There are beautiful parks and historic buildings throughout the old town, so plenty of opportunities to rest awhile and just soak it all in. Wonderful!

We waited while a wedding party did numerous retakes of their 'spontaneous' wedding walk through the archway below. I guess it has to look perfect even though it's about the fifth take. Weddings of course are special, but there appeared to be little awareness of the public space wanting to be visited by so many others. After a waiting for several takes/retakes  we decided to get closer and enjoy the beautiful historic archway, we got a few shouts of 'tourist move' and few not so nice  sweary words from the blushing bride who, from the language expressed, may have been a sailor in a previous life🤭.

The public sculpture and monuments are stunning.

The old and new fortress were both slammed by cruise boat passengers so we may visit on a quieter day.

This is one gorgeous old town. You can certainly see why it's been visited, fought over and loved by so many over hundreds of years. 

A slow coastal stroll back to our cottage via the old marina - boat on the right has seen better days 😁. 

Ended the day with a glass of vino on our little terrace and had a great conversation about flowers with the little old lady across the lane - she spoke Greek, I spoke English and we understood each other perfectly 😁 ...the language of gardeners 💗.