Drive around the North

Today we go for a bit of a drive. First we head for Kalami, which is one of the villages the Durrell family lived in. It's on the west coast, a few kilometers north of Corfu town. The White House, where Lawrence Durrell lived, is now a restaurant.

We had a little walk around then had lunch at a fairly upmarket shack on the beach called Thomas's Place.

We then drove further round the coast to Kassiopi, which is a bigger resort but still very pretty. Had a walk up to a Byzantine castle and did a little shopping.

Then we headed inland to Old Perithia. This is a "ghost village" which was abandoned many years ago and is slowly disintegrating. It still has about 6 taverns and restaurants though.

We then carried on driving along the north of the island, through various resorts. Stopped at Sidari where there was a water inlet called Canal D'Amour (Canal of Love) where we saw terrapins swimming in the (rather murky) water.

As it was getting late we decided to go for dinner in Peroulades, which Kostas had recommended for beautiful views over the sea and other islands at sunset. We had dinner in a restaurant appropriately called Panorama and waited for sunset, which was about 9.10pm. The photographs don't do it justice, it was stunning.