MY FIRST HOLIDAY IN CORFU ON MY OWN WITH OPTION HOLIDAYS.
Peter, Dorothy from Options Holidays drove Martin, Andrew, Keith, Martin and Michael to Pantocrator. We went all the way to the top of the mountain. It is the highest mountain on Corfu at 917m (about 3000 feet). We had a very good view looking ahead from the mountain. We went to the monastery and I lit 2 candles for Mum and Dad and wrote how much I still loved them. Then we had lunch outside, at the cafe. We left and decided to go to Sidari which is by the sea for an hour.
I had some photos taken of me and Elaine. This is one of them.
Today we went to the Corfu Brewery for a tour round which was really interesting. He told us how Corfu Beer was made and after he talked about everything, he asked if we had any questions. I asked him "how many people work here?" And he said "20". We all had a free drink of beer after the visit.
At the Greek Night we all sat down to have Greek food - there was a lot of it! After the meal we all went into the bar area for some Greek dancing. The Greek dancers asked people to get up and form a line, the lady dancer showed us what to do with our legs and then they started the music and we'd started to go round the tables and chairs and outside - all around the hotel. This is Hasapiko. After that there was some fire dancing. I had to get on my knees. Kirk and Mark and myself had fire coming round us on the floor as the dancers moved about. At the end of the night they handed plates out and they did the Zorbas dance. At the end we all smashed our plates on the floor.
Today I went in the car with Geraint, Avril, Elaine, Martin Ford and Michael and we drove to Paleokastritsa. On the way, Geraint explained we were driving over the mountain that separates North from South Corfu and we had views of both sides of the island. In Paleo we first went to the monastery and went into the museum. After the museum we went into the church where I paid for two candles and lit them and had my photo taken next to the candles. We then went to the cafe and had a drink looking at the view down to the sea. Then we drove back down to the village and had lunch in a restaurant by the sea. I had a pizza. After lunch we drove back a different way. We went up a very steep hill and stopped at a viewpoint very Hugh up where we could look down at the monastery and the place where we had our lunch and the beautiful coastline. The rest of the journey also had some lovely views, we came down into St George's Bay and we stopped for a cup of tea before we came back to the hotel to get ready to go to Sidari for the Greek night. The Greek dancing was really good, so we're their costumes. I had a photo taken with them. They also did some fire dancing. We came back to the hotel and saw the Abba tribute act. I thought they were really good. I took a photograph of them and had my photo taken with them.
Abba Tribute band with Martin, Elaine, Bobby, Andrew
Plate smashing
Greek dancing
Martin, Elaine and Robin
The Group
Martin with 2 lady dancers
Martin up by the chapel
Martin at the Chapel on the corner
Martin swimming
Martin with Elaine, Nikos and Heather
