San Stefanos Online ~ North West Corfu

Tomorrow we leave this beautiful island and travel on to the UK. We arrived on 23rd May after a truly exhausting 45hr trip from New Zealand via LA and Toronto. We arrived, but my luggage didn't, and still hasn't. We stayed in the Margaritas apartments right down by the beach. Our apartment was large, airy, well appointed and very comfortable. We made very good use of the included air conditioning as well as the day beds in  the garden. I highly recommend this as a place to stay.
However i think the most enduring memory i will take with me is the help and support i received from Noula, Aline, Lesley and the team at San Stefano Travel. Nothing was too much trouble from checking the airport everyday for my missing suitcase to getting my emergency prescription filled with essential medication. I am very grateful for all of their help.
We return to NZ on 16th July and i wonder if my suitcase will have caught up with me by then?
Chris

Lyn and i chose to have our meal at the waves tonight. It is the only place we have seen with beef with aubergines and she wanted to try it, and i fancied a pork chop. My chop was very acceptable but her beef dish was beautiful. She thoroughly enjoyed it. The draught beer was dashed good too!
Chris

Ha! Right on both counts. I now have a couple of weeks supply of the most important meds, so i am ok on that front. Still no luggage though, last heard of i  Dublin. Have bought a couple of shirts, so alternating. Footwear is the hardest. I may be a Kiwi now but i have never got on with jandals!
Chris

A very good question. I have looked at so many menus since then, they have a tendency to blur! The dishes we each had were Greek, or Greek inspired. We can obtain Italian relatively easily back home in NZ so we try and stick to Greek cuisine here if we can.
Chris

Thanks folks. We are staying at the Margaritas and Noula has offered her assistance, so if my case does not turn up i can try and sort out replacement meds. One of them is a bit exotic, so i hope it is available here. It has proved such a mission just getting here, our long haul flights were cancelled 3 times, the last being on thursday whilst we were at the check in desk at the airport! So we had to go home and find new flights. We were originally due to arrive here last Friday.
Thanks for your responses. It is so good to be finally back here.
Chris

Hi Jimbo. I too am a born and bred Yorkshireman, having been born along 'essle road in 'Ull. You could say i have moved from God's own county to God's own country. I still have mushy peas with my red snapper and chips.
Chris

We were really looking forward to 3 weeks in the Margaritas apartments from the end of May 21. Sadly we have had to cancel our trip. New Zealand, our home for almost 20 years, has done remarkably well in defeating the Covid-19 virus. This has been helped in large part by a very secure closure of our borders. All arrivals in NZ have to spend at least 14 days in Managed Isolation and Quarantine (MIQ). Places are limited and are currently booked solid to 31st May. Returning Holiday makers are given very low priority, so if we left here we run a very real risk of not being able to get back home on our scheduled flights. We booked these last September, in the hope of a more virus-free world than we have and our borders may not now re-open until the end of 2021.

Noula has been very understanding and we have re-booked at Margaritas apartments for 3 weeks next year. Hopefully the vaccines will help loosen Covids grip on the worlds throat.

We will greatly miss San Stef this year and wish all there a happy and successful season. See you all in 2022.
Chris and Lynda

Sadly we are unable to make 2020, the cost of flights is prohibitive to make it annually. But we are coming back in 2021 and have secured 3 weeks in the Margaritas Suites again and we are so looking forward to that. Insofar as meals are concerned there are so many excellent options, but probably Manthos for our first. We have so many happy memories of great nights there in the 80s. Hope to meet up with some of you folk too.
Till then, kalo taxidi.
Chris