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Jimbo:
Thanks, David. I've tried to describe things as accurately as I can from the point of view of Johnny Almond, who is seeing it all for the first time. I spent a week in Sidari with my son when he was sixteen. We couldn't find a decent Greek taverna. We did have some good curry, though, so I'll try to get that into the second book!

Lesley:
Actually I fell in love with Corfu (and in love) on my visit (1981) to this rock in Sidari which then was a sleepy resort, a few hippies, sandy beaches and - oh yes found my hubby to be..  A moped hair- riding ride took you over to Manthos in Ag Stef on a Saturday night for a real Greek night but you had to book - else no tables were available, a sandy road between the resorts took ages to get there .....

Tredegar Boy:
Sidari was a dead quiet little village when we visited there in 1989. Really quaint with traditional taverna's and a few bars. Lovely.

Drove through it on the way to San Stef in 2004 and there was a Mcdonalds (if memory serves), a one-way system and hordes of bars and eateries. How things change.

Jimbo:
If you want to know how I described it - which you may not - get the book. The Kindle version costs about the same as a pint of beer, and you can read it on phones, tablets, laptops and, of course, Kindles.

What I actually think about Sidari is that it's a rather sad place. It does not have the village feel of Agios Stefanos. It's spread out over a large area and looks like a cheap package-tour operation. It's central street is lively in a commercial way, but lacks a sense of a real place. I would never stay there again.

I suspect whoever is in charge of releasing reviews on Amazon likes Sidari. I get emails from people who posted a review a week ago and it's still not there. Maybe they're all awful - at this rate we'll never know. I set out to write another novel before I was eighty or dead and I did it. Now I want to write two, so I'm 6,000 words into the sequel. I just hope people will enjoy it.

Tredegar Boy:
Well Jimbo I've downloaded it and will read it by the pool in Majorca in June. I think a book about Corfu would be best read in the summer while in San Stef but we're not going this year as we have a number of postponed trips in the diary already from last year, so Majorca it is.

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