San Stefanos Online ~ North West Corfu

Thanks Lesley. Will keep our eyes open for powdered milk! We do use fresh milk always in preference, of course.  It's just when staying at Nafsika you do not have a fridge. It's always possible to keep the fresh milk downstairs in one of the fridges there, but I'm too lazy to go down for it early in the morning!! 

There is a kettle and a hair drier attached to the wall in the bathroom which I find fine. As Jim says not usually a fridge but they don't mind you keeping milk in their fridge downstairs. we tend to prefer to take powdered milk for tea as we're less keen on the taste of the long-lasting stuff!

Come to think of it, I have only really become aware of it post Covid. Funnily enough I have a recurring argument about whether you can be on holiday when staying at home! I say of course you can, others insist you have to go away, not necessarily abroad, just not in your own house!

Brill! We're all happy again!

That's great news!

I meant to add that there is not a cloud in the sky, same as yesterday, so better than our favourite place

"Also for the past few years, on my last trip of the year (Oct) I normally drain half the water out of the pool which is 1.6 metres deep, to allow for the winter rain not overflowing it, and in case of earthquakes I've been told it helps to keep some water in the pool.
Come May when I return I have a pool that is the colour of a swamp, I then fully drain the pool take all the dead leaves from the bottom and clean the tiles etc, but it takes 5 days to fill from empty, plus another day for the 'shock chlorine' to kick in, the another day for the Algicide."


It's interesting about pools! Funnily enough I looked up about i earlier in the year! I'm a sad case I know! The above was one answer, others do not empty at all but keep adding chemicals etc etc but expensive


"Do any of you that have a pool, do what I do, half empty pool over winter, fully drain pool of now green water in spring and fill with fresh water and chemicals taking 5-7 days. Or do you half empty in winter, fill the green coloured pool to full and then add chemicals etc. Saving days on the cleaning process?"

Also:
"I've tried both methods ie John's empty, pressure wash and leave as well as keeping it ticking over during the long winter months ie October to May. Last week I was at the pool shop in Chania and the owner recommended the latter method ie keep it running.

Something to consider too, if a tiled pool, the water volume / pressure is huge and if emptied the tiles might crack if there's any ground movement."

Obviously a quite complicated process. Amazing what can prove interesting during lockdowns!!!
 

What a wonderful Christmas present! Thanks so much, Dimitris ! Missed being there so much this year but now we'll have this lovely view to look at and keep our spirits up.

Brilliant.