How long have you been a member?

[Georgie2002]

April 2012 for me   I joined a few months before my first visit in August 2012, with my daughter who was 10 at the time.  I'm now coming back for a second time (finally!) for my honeymoon in June next year

[Jimbo]

Heated debates? yep undoubtedly but always with a degree of respect I think.

To explain to those who weren't here at the time, the reason the man who called himself Yiannis (he was late-middle aged Englishman) left was that in almost every post he made he promoted Romanza and Mythica (the taverna owned by Romanza and no longer there). Many people became fed up with this and said so. Eventually he stormed off.

The "heated" debates were often about trivial things - for example, were some people being given Kumquat marmalade at breakfast at Romanza? That one ran and ran, and became a running joke. Actually, some people took their own Kumquat jam to breakfast!

I think people these days are over-sensitive to disagreement. I like issues to be debated. For example, in 1944 Churchill ordered British troops, allied with pro-Nazi collaborators, to fire upon a peaceful demonstration in Syntagma Square in Athens. 20 were killed and over a hundred injured. It's known to Greek people as Dekemvriana. That's just one example of Churchill's dreadful actions. Heated debate, anyone?

[WINKIE]

To explain to those who weren't here at the time, the reason the man who called himself Yiannis (he was late-middle aged Englishman) left was that in almost every post he made he promoted Romanza and Mythica (the taverna owned by Romanza and no longer there). Many people became fed up with this and said so. Eventually he stormed off.

The "heated" debates were often about trivial things - for example, were some people being given Kumquat marmalade at breakfast at Romanza? That one ran and ran, and became a running joke. Actually, some people took their own Kumquat jam to breakfast!

I think people these days are over-sensitive to disagreement. I like issues to be debated. For example, in 1944 Churchill ordered British troops, allied with pro-Nazi collaborators, to fire upon a peaceful demonstration in Syntagma Square in Athens. 20 were killed and over a hundred injured. It's known to Greek people as Dekemvriana. That's just one example of Churchill's dreadful actions. Heated debate, anyone?

Dare I say smoking in restaurants etc  , that one ran forever  .

[Gavlah1973]

Ha ha..... I remember kumquatgate very well.

I chuckled because was staying at Romanza one year and old Kosta, who couldn't speak a word of English, babbled on at me then forced a kumquat into my hand

Went straight back to that argument!

[Jimbo]

The there was Vlad The Black Dog, who could be seen prowling the village mysteriously at night.

And Natasha, the Ukrainian poet:

http://www.sanstefanos.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,1228.msg31444.html#msg31444

I enjoyed the flurry of postings where people assured Natasha that San Stef was an incredibly broad-minded place.

And plenty more. The forum was a lot of fun then!

[Gavlah1973]

Not forgetting Boris the Albanian waiter

[Sarah]

I have been a member since June 2007.

We first came to Corfu 33 years ago and have probably had about 24 holidays on the island staying in Sidari (Canal d'amour) several times, Acharavi once, Arillas several times and San Stefanos the last 10 years or so apart from a blip last year when we done All Inclusive in Agios Gordios which was a mistake, after the first week we checked out and hired a car to SS and stayed there for the rest of the holiday. 

Wherever we stayed on the island in the early days we always hired a bike/car to spend a day on SS beach.

I don't contribute on the forum very much but keep up to date with the posts most days especially at the moment as we should be there now  .

[richnsare]

Morning all.

August 2009 for me, which was soon after finding San Stefanos and was our first foreign holiday in 10 years to celebrate our 10th anniversary. We stayed at Voula, fell in love with the resort and island and have returned pretty much every year since. We've stayed at Rose Garden and Theresa, but predominantly return to Perros, which has been our particular favourite over the years.

During one of our holidays, back in 2012, I created a website and wrote a blog during our 2 week holiday. If you need a distraction at the moment, you may find some of the ramblings of interest and hopefully bring back some memories:

https://www.lovecorfu.com/blog

I had planned to commercialise the website at some point, but it ended up with very little content. I have refreshed it recently, but as mentioned it remains as a possible project for the future.

Enjoy and take care all.

[Karen]

Thank you Richard, I'm going to have a read, bring back some memories

[Trevor]

Hi there, My first day of membership.

[Rod]

To explain to those who weren't here at the time, the reason the man who called himself Yiannis (he was late-middle aged Englishman) left was that in almost every post he made he promoted Romanza and Mythica (the taverna owned by Romanza and no longer there). Many people became fed up with this and said so. Eventually he stormed off.

The "heated" debates were often about trivial things - for example, were some people being given Kumquat marmalade at breakfast at Romanza? That one ran and ran, and became a running joke. Actually, some people took their own Kumquat jam to breakfast!

I think people these days are over-sensitive to disagreement. I like issues to be debated. For example, in 1944 Churchill ordered British troops, allied with pro-Nazi collaborators, to fire upon a peaceful demonstration in Syntagma Square in Athens. 20 were killed and over a hundred injured. It's known to Greek people as Dekemvriana. That's just one example of Churchill's dreadful actions. Heated debate, anyone?

  I prefer your kumquat jam stories Jimbo.  However, the devil dog stories in San Stef were quite interesting.

[Rod]

Hi there, My first day of membership.

  Welcome Trevor.

[Rod]

The there was Vlad The Black Dog, who could be seen prowling the village mysteriously at night.

And Natasha, the Ukrainian poet:

http://www.sanstefanos.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,1228.msg31444.html#msg31444

I enjoyed the flurry of postings where people assured Natasha that San Stef was an incredibly broad-minded place.

And plenty more. The forum was a lot of fun then!

  For those that don't know, Natasha was a figment of Jimbo's imagination.  He has some imagination, good fun, good guy.

[Jimbo]

For those that don't know, Rod is a figment of my imagination!

[Karen]

Hi there, My first day of membership.

Hello Trevor and welcome