Ah, Corfu. We love you. We started the day with a walking tour of Corfu City, which looks like it was transplanted from the Italian Riviera. The tour was complete with reconstruction noise, construction noise, delivery truck noise, cicadas singing almost as loudly as they did in Chicago last summer (the summer of the 17 year cicadas).Between noises, we managed to learn about this city and island. It is a verdant island – lots of palm trees and cypresses – and temperate by Greek standards. Italian influences definitely dominate. We visited the major sites of the city, including two churches that contain the bones of St. Theodora and St. Spiridon. Greek Orthodox churches are cool. For those who may be concerned about our spiritual health on this trip, we visited multiple churches since our trip began so we believe we are covered.
After the tour Julie spotted an in-town car rental agency (1 point for Julie) so we took the plunge and rented a car to take us to the beach. Olympus Car Rental put us in a Cordoba and sent us on our way to sandy Glifada beach on Corfu’s west coast, stopping at the Pink Panther for a traditional Greek lunch with a view along the way. The beach was gorgeous – crystal clear waters that were easily warmer than Dubrovnik’s and fun waves to body surf in. We navigated back to the rental agency (point #2 for Julie) and headed back to the boat so Dennis could do his first lecture on the Olympics and the port of Katakolon (port for Olympia) that we visit tomorrow. His talk went well (point #3 to Julie for remembering that the 2000 Olympics were in Sydney), except for an AV glitch that left the photos of Greece an odd shade of sepia.
Prior to his talk, Julie, Luther and Rebecca managed to fit in some time on the Sanctuary deck soaking up some sun and dipping in the pool frequently to cool off. Fill or Bust scores stand at Rebecca 50,000 (exactly!), Julie 46,350 and Luther 45,450 (making his comeback). Dennis remains scoreless. You have to play to win. And as we learned from Dennis’ talk today, winning is everything. Losing=death.
We’re still having issues uploading photos, even at the internet cafés off the ship. We’ll keep trying.
After the tour Julie spotted an in-town car rental agency (1 point for Julie) so we took the plunge and rented a car to take us to the beach. Olympus Car Rental put us in a Cordoba and sent us on our way to sandy Glifada beach on Corfu’s west coast, stopping at the Pink Panther for a traditional Greek lunch with a view along the way. The beach was gorgeous – crystal clear waters that were easily warmer than Dubrovnik’s and fun waves to body surf in. We navigated back to the rental agency (point #2 for Julie) and headed back to the boat so Dennis could do his first lecture on the Olympics and the port of Katakolon (port for Olympia) that we visit tomorrow. His talk went well (point #3 to Julie for remembering that the 2000 Olympics were in Sydney), except for an AV glitch that left the photos of Greece an odd shade of sepia.
Prior to his talk, Julie, Luther and Rebecca managed to fit in some time on the Sanctuary deck soaking up some sun and dipping in the pool frequently to cool off. Fill or Bust scores stand at Rebecca 50,000 (exactly!), Julie 46,350 and Luther 45,450 (making his comeback). Dennis remains scoreless. You have to play to win. And as we learned from Dennis’ talk today, winning is everything. Losing=death.
We’re still having issues uploading photos, even at the internet cafés off the ship. We’ll keep trying.
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Sounds like so much fun! Keep up the blogging - I'm really enjoying it and I've been faxing it to The Mom! Mary
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