Corfu

Well, well :) After an extremely long and tiring road, I managed to get back home from the beautiful Greek island: Corfu. The weather was great, no strikes in our way, in fact, the greeks look so chill and calm, that you might not even think there's something wrong going on with their lovely country. Their calmness even became annoying from time to time. It makes me wonder if it's us the ones too hurried. 

I'll try to make it quite short. We stayed in Acharavi, a nice small town in the northern part of the island, but it was a bit too silent for my taste. We discovered a great bar in the last night of our stay (what a shame): Harry's Bar, where you can spend an awesome time with your friends. They offer you different games, books, drinks from the house and the staff is nice and friendly. And I would also like to recommend The Pumphouse, the restaurant where we ate twice and I personally loved the food (Tsipoura - some fried local fish, very tasty but a bit expensive & Moussaka; picture only with the moussaka, unfortunately :( ). Small tip: Gyros is also very tasty but it's a bit too small for the price (~2euros). It was enough for me too feed my hunger, but the boys always complained :)) 

ATVs for 20 or 25 euros/day (12hrs), take them from Kostas, he's awesome :)) It's worth it to go visit the other northern towns, like Sidari (photos below), a place I fell in love with. You can jump from the rocks straight into the deep clear water and swim through a small cave (oh well, there are signs of NOT doing all of these, but everyone was doing it :)) ). The scapes are simply breathtaking and the town seemed to be so full of life, young people and various things to do at any hour. If I ever go back to Corfu, I'll definitely be staying in Sidari.

Btw, the greeks wake up quite late in the morning, so except supermarkets, agencies and car rentals, don't expect to find anything open before 10 o'clock. Night life begins sometime after 1 a.m. and funny fact, which I was proud of, is that everywhere they were playing Romanian artists' music :)) In clubs, in supermarkets, Inna and Smiley (+ many others) are quite popular. :))

Moving on, DON'T take optional trips from the agency. I was so upset about the guide that stayed with us there that I came home decided to tell everyone about her lack of professionalism. Now I think it's not worth it, so I'll just tell you to try and find local agencies, because they offer the same trips at a lower price. For example, the trip to Paxos/Antipaxos was 39 euros at our agency and we bought it with 26 from a local one. We had a great time, went in exactly the same places and most important, we got home safe and sound.  

Paxos/Antipaxos is worth if you like sea cruises, because you'll spend a lot of time on the boat. They'll take you visit the Blue Caves (amazing!), let you swim near the boat somewhere near Antipaxos and finally you'll have about 3 hrs in Gaios, capital of Paxos, a small pretty town. We were lucky enough to even see dolphins swimming around our boat :) 

I'll end my post with the visit to the capital of the island, Corfu Town. Unfortunately, we wanted to do it on our own, took a bus (3,60 euros) there and found out that the Achilleio Palace and Pontikonissi Island (main points of interest) are quite far to get to them by foot, so we just wandered a bit around the city and the fortresses and eventually went home. 

All in all it was a great trip, the only minus was the road. I had to take the train to Bucharest (14hrs!) and after 10 hrs of waiting there, the bus to Corfu (18hrs).. so yea', it was pretty much tiring. 

I recommend Corfu to everyone and don't hesitate to ask me for more info if you're interested in going there, I will gladly answer!