Corfu Town Part 1

We went on a trip to Corfu, which was the name of the main city on the island aswell as the island itself, just in case people forgot. We were told to walk to the top of the hill outside the hotel gates to catch the bus, but when it arrived we were chagrined to find it immediately went back down the hill we climbed to pick up the more savvy of its’ customers. On the way, in a nice bus which also had powerful air con, we passed many decrepit houses and tiny roads far too small for buses, including one shop called ‘Potato Mania.’ This was not a bus stop, which was a shame, because I wondered what sort of potatoes they sold. When we arrived we crossed a few streets, taking use of the orange striped zebra crossings (tiger crossings perhaps?), but as we found out, no one stops at them, which provokes the question: what is the point in painting them? We climbed a fortress there, one of the two fortresses protecting the capital (the inner and the outer.) It cost 6 euros but there was nothing to see but a couple of old cannons and a lot of stairs. Then we walked around the city where we found a shop called Poupee, but what was sold inside we did not discover.
After a cup of coffee/tea we chose a restaurant on the basis that the best one wouldn’t have a guy outside trying to sell it to you. So we ate at a small, empty restaurant which looked like it could have been in an Asterix comic. There we ate a wonderful seafood platter, with tzatziki and taramasalata much better than what you can find here. It also had octopus which I was worried about, but which was the highlight of the food there and which we had again, even the next day in a place which we called Panathinaikos (a Greek football team) because we couldn’t pronounce it properly.