... Corfu

I have been silent now for a week or so, but it has been for a good reason: I was on a post-graduation holiday with the money I got for present at the party. It was simply wonderful to have a week in a country I´ve never been before to do whatever I want! I spent half of my vacation on bike, getting to know the area surrounding my hotel at Kassiopi, and half walking and driving by bus to more distant spots. The nature was beautiful, though the flora could have been less thorny (my legs look as if they were clawed by a minitiger). I spent long times wandering down "public" footh paths, where I never saw anyone else, looking for a lonely strand (or an abandoned house, but didn´t find any). Being on a holiday in a tourist trap like Corfu has its benefits: If you have any energy at all, you can find a path and walk for 15 minutes, and voila, you are free from the crowds. It is always like this: average tourist doesn´t have the courage nor the inventiveness to really explore the country, so they spent their vacation hanging about on the beach where there are five english-speaking  ice cream bars, two tourist information centres and three rent-a-car enterprisers for ten square metres.
Anyhow I took some pictures, which I thought would show you the Corfu of my holiday. Hope you like :)

The beach of Kassiopi

lonely Avlaki beach

On my way to old venetian village of Perithia:

A colossal cave on top of the mountain

Old Perithia

  

On my way back to Kassiopi

Kassiopi as seen from an old castle

 I found a "private beach" when I was walking about near Avlaki:

View from Mon Repos park

Kerkyra (capital) and its old fortress

Sidari main beach

View from an old castle