Fifth Week

My last day at home before I fly back to Phil and Poppy. I had a lovely long soak in the bath, then packed my hand luggage. Then I went round to see Archie and the rest of the family, including Anja's sister Michaela and her husband Ian who had arrived for cuddles with Archie.

I am so sad to be leaving Archie, he will have changed so much by the time I see him again. Larissa has promised to send me lots of photos to keep me up to date.

Friday 1st May 2015

It is a bank holiday in Corfu – some of our friends in Arillas walked the 'Arillas Trail' today – if anyone would like to see a superb video of it go to -https://vimeo.com/126714635 – it is only approx 3 minutes long, but it gives a good overview of Arillas.

Brouklis Taverna May day wreath

I am looking forward to seeing Phil and Poppy tonight. Gary dropped me off at my friend Sandra's. I was quite lucky to get the same flight as her – she, and her daughter Carol were coming to see us anyway, staying at Kaloudis.. We had a good flight from Doncaster to Corfu. I had booked my transfer separately to Sandra and Carol theirs was in their package, so I arrived almost 2 hours before them. Phil and I sat in Kaloudis bar, while we waited for them to arrive. My transfer was booked through holidaytaxis.com and cost 13€ for anyone interested. When Sandra and Carol arrived, we had a snack and more wine. I went to sleep as soon as my head touched the pillow.

Saturday 2nd May 2015

We all had a long lie in after our late night. I woke up to some photos from Larissa.

Sandra and Carol eventually found us after walking half way round the village – I knew they were not listening when I gave them directions last night lol. It seems that what we call the Hotel Marvel is known as Hotel Marvellous by everyone they asked, so they thought it was a different place. We went for a drive to stock up on shopping and then had a late lunch at Akrotiri. It was glorious up there, no wind and the temperature was very pleasant. Whilst driving round the village we came across these little goats – so cute!

We learned today that the new Royal Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana was born and is 4th in line to the throne.
This evening we went to Portofino and had an excellent meal as usual. It was the second night of being open, but was not very busy. Spiros came and sat with us for quite a while. We had a good laugh getting some of his light hearted abuse.

Sunday 3rd May 2015

Beautiful day today, up to 23°.

We had a drive into San Stefanos, and called at Hippopots for Sandra and Carol to meet Jackie and Pete. Sandra could not resist buying something. I love these flip flops on their wall. The shop is looking lovely. We drove down to the harbour then back to Arillas for Poppy to have a swim.

 Then to Sharons for a drink and a sit in the sun passing the time away.

Sandra and Carol

This evening we went up to Kaloudis for Spit roast Lamb and a quiz. We teamed up with Kez and Kath. We actually came joint first with two other teams and we lost on the tie breaker. Never mind it was good fun.

 We ended the night with a complimentary cocktail – a Screwdriver with 6 straws, and very nice it was too!

Monday 4th May 2015.

Sunny and warm today. I woke up to find a mossy bite on my posterior – first this year.

My daily baby fix

We walked down to say hello to Yiota – she opened her shop today.

Chocolate and Banana

Poppy had a swim and then we sat at Sharons and tried a slice of her delicious cake. We were looking at the re-installed bench, thinking we will have to toddle down the end of the jetty for our usual photo – maybe Avrio!

Tonight we drove up to Kaloudis and picked up, Sandra, Carol, Kes and Kath. We were going to Bavias but they are not open until Wednesday, so we went to Pizza Romano in Sidari. We had a beautiful meal, enjoyed by all. Good night, good friends and lots of laughs.