Corfu was a beautiful place. It had a lot of flowers and hills covered with green trees.There are about 70,000 olive tress on Corfu and is the main source of income on the island.
Here is a picture of the old fort that was the townI(can't remember the name) and then the more modern city built around it.
We rode on a bus around the island and the roads were so skinny. They looked like one way street and they were very curvy. We had to have very good bus drivers. I thought they were one way until cars started passing us coming the other direction. It got really tricky when there were cars parked on one or both sides of the street also.
The first place we visited was a palace built by Elizabeth, Empress of Austia. It was called the Achillon Palace because of the statue of Achilles that was in the court yard. The palace was full of carvings and statues from greek mythology. The above picture was a court yard that had statues of the 12 muses.
Elizabeth, Empress of Austria
The Statue of the dying Achilles that the palace was named for. Hopefully you all know this story.
After the Empress died a king of Germany bought the palace and he put this statue of Achilles on the palace grounds. Originally his helmet was gold plated so the king could see it shining in the sun and he aproached Corfu from the sea.
The view of Corfu from the palace.
This is a picture of a little island called mouse island. It has a little church on it that is really popular to get married in.
The next place we went was a private villa to have lunch. This is a picture on the villa.
A funny thing happened while we were arriving at the villa and hopefully Nicolle won't care if I tell the story. As we walked in there was a table with drinks sitting on it. One was a orangy color and the other was clear. Nicolle crabbed the clear one thinking it was water and took a gulp of it. She started spitting it out in the bushes. I started laughing. of course it was not water but Ozo a alcholic drink from Greece. Leave it up to Nicolle for comic relief.
This is the beautiful place we got to enjoy lunch in.
This is what we ate. It was about 20 different greek specialties. I tried a little of everything even the fried squid. I did it so Rodney would be proud of me.
This was out hostess. She was very nice.
This is a picture of olives on the tree. They are about 1 month away from being ripe.Our day in Corfu was wonderful. It was a beautiful place that I would love to go back to and spend more time.
More pics to come.
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