Living in Corfu in the mid-eighties. The people, the changes, religion and the back handers! When good old Greek cuisine & bottles of 5 star Metaxa had more clout than a fistfull of dollars, especially so with the local Corfiote constabulary! The good old days…never to be the same again. October 1985 and my 90 [...]
It’s one thing being a painter and decorator’s assistant it’s quite another doing all the work yourself, or so I thought.
Nikos the painter having lived in Australia for some years had a much broader outlook on life. His humour was wicked and stylish like a true Corfiot but with a subtlety that was full of [...]
It’s acceptable not knowing much at 22yrs I’d wish I new that at the time. In 1989 I’d been on the Island of Corfu for 4 months and only now was I beginning to settle into the expat community of Kontokali.
I’d a steady job, time on my hands and some spending money. I’d my first [...]
To understand the national character of Corfu, you need to now how they see themselves. Many base their character on the impoverished and downtrodden, getting the better of the world around them by sheer cunning. They’re impulsive, boastful, impatient, inventive and very quick in their sympathy. Yet their tolerance (Of the outside world) and charm [...]
It’s been 20 years since I was in this part of the Old City of Corfu. The Liston area is where you find the upmarket Cafés, built by the French and modelled on ‘Paris Rue de Rivoli’. It’s where everyone sits and talks. Drinking coffee and people watching is the favourite pastime.
The cricket pitch is [...]
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