Corfu Town Part 2

This place we went to because we wanted to find a decent beach. We went south again from our hotel in the north, and west to the coast in a hired car which already had nearly 900 km on its counter. We had a map, calling the island Kepkypa (as Corfu is known to the locals perhaps) and translated in Thucydides’ History as Corcyra. On the map it doesn’t show all the roads and so we got lost a number of times and had to turn round, but luckily Corfu isn’t that large so we could get too badly lost. Even the main roads though, as we found, were akin to small country lanes but there was relatively little traffic. There were a number of small places trying to loan you scooters but unsuccessfully it seemed for there were a lot of scooters outside them. At the beach we had a little lie down and luckily it was sandy and hot and not too crowded, probably as it was so difficult to find. It was a small atoll with lovely looking water, but as at the hotel pools, it was very cold to swim in. At the car park when we arrived there was a guy trying to sell us boat rides and a trip to the aquarium – a very small brown building. In the end because one of my friends spoke Greek we got a boat ride for 1 euro cheaper each, which made for very little savings but he enjoyed it all the same. It seemed after the boat ride – called the yellow submarine as it had a glass bottom – that the aquarium was there because there was so few species of fish in the actual sea. Nobody went in though.

We counted three different sorts of fish on the boatride (less than on my friends screensaver), and two different caves, but the ride boasted a chapel the biggest of all the chapels on the island. At least the weather was good. By the beach there were a couple of restaurants and a café but nowhere to change into your underwear, so I accidentally caught a glimpse as I walked by of an overweight elderly woman changing. She should have done it in the aquarium.

They sold a different type of beer than in the hotel though – called Mythos beer – which tasted nice, but as I thought was probably not mythical. We didn’t see any temples or statues of heroes or gods of old, so I don’t know what they worshipped there – maybe tourism? Maybe their powerful air-con?