Arrived home yesterday after a great week in Corfu, the Easter Weekend was quiet in San Stef, many of the locals using it as an excuse (dont blame them) to open a few days late.
The Athens Bar, Tasty Corner and Kalami Bar all planned to open yesterday (Tuesday) and Zorbes on Friday, by the weekend San Stef will be in full swing with the Little Prince full from Friday night onwards.
Hopefully the beach will be sorted soon but they have their work cut out!
We spent all our evenings at the Little Prince but on Easter Sunday we went to a 'Lamb On The Spit' Easter Celebration at the Rose Garden which was a marathon 11 hour eating and drinking session with Greek Music/dancing and loads of fun, Kiki, Pipina and Dimitri were great hosts and it was lovely to see locals and visitors enjoying the celebrations together. Thomas Bay and Nafsika were doing similar events so the Village worked hard to ensure visitors felt part of the Easter occassion.
The weather was remarkably good, I recorded a temperature of 30c in the shade on Monday which is a level normally seen only in July and August in San Stef and under sunny skies it was great lying out at the Little Prince pool which we had mostly to ourselves.
One other piece of news, the old San Stefano car hire is soon to be a Travel Agent selling trips etc while the extended unit will be a Giros outlet, that part of the main street is looking very different.
Prices are the same as last year so its again excellent value with a two course meal with wine in the Little Prince for less than 15euro and even less than that if you go for a special.
Shame we missed opening night in the Athens Bar, Nikos was busy getting the bar ready and was inviting regulars in to 'sample' the drinks in advance of the big opening night, he has lost none of his zest for life!
We spoke to the owner of the Villa we rented in Kassiopi before going to San Stef and told him we were moving on to San Stef North West, he replied "ah yes San Stephanos, my friend has a pizza place there, very friendly people"
I couldnt have put it better myself
Andy