Corfu 🇬🇷



Since our last post we’ve enjoyed one full day at sea followed by a day docked in Corfu Town on the Greek island of (you guessed it) Corfu.

The sea day was a very busy day, if such a thing exists when one is on a cruise.  In the morning, we attended a culinary show in the theatre that featured the Head Chef and the  Manager of Food Services.  They were funnier than any of the comedians we’ve been watching in the lounge.  They used up a whole bottle ot vodka demonstrating the preparation of the various dishes that we’re being served.  I’m pretty sure that was a joke.  I’m not absolutely sure. The show was followed by a tour of he galley that was brief but impressive, culminating in an enthusiastic and unexpected rendering of the song Beautiful Sunday by some of the kitchen staff.  We came away thinking that moonlighting kitchen people should stick to comedy.

Later in the day we attended the Captain’s gala party, to which we were invited because of our  “Platinum” status for having sailed with Princess a number of times in the past.  As it turned out, they were building us up to knock us down.  Princess used the opportunity to introduce the guest who had spent the greatest amount of time  sailing on their fleet.  That honour went to a lady from Edmonton who had spent about 1560 days at sea. We have a ways to go.

  Our stop in Corfu was the shortest of our trip, as we had to be back on board for 3:30.   Princess was kind enough to provide us with a bus to take us to where we could catch a bus.  Once there, we decided that we could walk to most of the places the hop-on hop-off bus would take us.  It’s probably just our delusion, but we feel like we can offset some of the effects of scarfing down mass quantities of food if we take this approach.

It took just 25 minutes or so to reach the “old town” of Corfu.  The views were excellent but obscured somewhat by a persistent marine fog.  Corfu Town boasts not one, but two historical forts.  They are described as the “Old Fort” and the “New Fort”, and they are old and new in a similar fashion to the testaments of the Christian Bible.  Neither is especially new.  One dates back to 1550 and the other to 1575.  I’ll leave it to you to sort out which one is which.

We had a very long walk visiting sites on our self-guided tour, and hopefully got in enough steps to compensate for not leaving the ship the day before.  We’re proud to report that we’ve passed by a huge number of souvenir stores now without adding to our personal inventories of fridge magnets or bottle openers.


Walking the sea wall to Corfu Old Town

This is the Corfu Old Fort constructed between 1550 and 1559.
As compared to the new Corfu Fort built in 1576 and 1589!


 Palace of St. Michael and St. George was once home to the Greek Royal family.



Narrow pedestrian streets of Corfu Old Town. 


Bougainvillea TREES flourish in Corfu!


Church of Saint Spyridon



Black Forest cake competition
The director of food services decided that it should have a forest on the cake and watered it generously with vodka to ensure it would thrive!

Thanking a few of the cooks and food services staff for making our cruise so wonderful. There are in fact more than 600 of them preparing and serving food on this ship!




And another perfect day wraps!
















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