Day Ten: Corfu, Greece

Once again, we stayed in bed very, very late after eating breakfast: 1:30 PM! We sure wasted that day away. I really wish we hadn't done that. But, I was sick still and needed to catch up on sleep.


There was a long, hot walk to the terminal to catch a cab, after we finally rousted ourselves, showered and dressed.  We paid 25 Euros to get to this beach, just to the north of Corfu (aka Kerkira).


A nice little children's playground at the beach, smartly placed in the shade.


There was no sand on the beach; it was all rocky. That was the only downside; it hurt our feet. It was a really beautiful little beach town that we would have loved to explore if there was more time. See how everyone faced their chairs away from the water? That was unusual. The water was nice enough. It was salty, because we were in the Med, but it was very murky, like a lake. And there was an extremely cold stream coming in from the side. Rob didn't like that so much, but I thought it was great! We saw lots of bare boobs on that beach. It was Europe, after all!
 

When we finally, begrudgingly realized we had to get out of the water and dry off in the sun (having forgotten our towels on the ship), we went to the bar nearby . Rob had a gyro sandwich and I had a tuna.


Me at the "bar," looking oh-so-glamorous


This time, I received an actual Sprite. They were always in green glass bottles. Rob had a beer.


The little bar kitty; can you tell we love animals?



This wasn't the first time Rob received French fries IN his sandwich!


We asked the bar owner to call us a cab, and we ordered a dessert to go  (the same one I showed you yesterday,  we think).  Unfortunately, it melted long before we made it back to the ship, and we had to pitch it.  We ended up paying 20 Euros for lunch and 20 more for the return cab ride.  If I haven't mentioned it a zillion times before, Europe is very expensive!

We had gotten out very late that day, so we caught the very last shuttle from downtown Corfu - which we never did get to walk around and explore, sadly - back to the ship. Whew! We made it. A few times, passengers were left behind in the ports.


 We went back to our room then, to see if there was any word on Jack's condition. There wasn't any, so we relaxed a long while on the balcony. Here's Rob reading the signed Britto book we were given for buying his art. We took showers and dressed for dinner after a while.


A beautiful Greek sunset, from our balcony

 
Our wake, far below


While we were on the balcony, people started shouting about dolphins frolicking next to us, from the Lido Deck just above us. We ran to catch the camera and started snapping!

They were so far away, they look minuscule, but they were definitely full-sized! There had to be at least a half-dozen of them, and they stayed a while. I took umpteen million pictures to try and get a good one, but these were the best I could do.

Finally, dinner. Rob had the salmon "dialogue," whatever  that means, along with lobster bisque, duck a l'orange, and a Grand Marnier soufflé. I had a phyllo dough and baked Brie with cranberry sauce appetizer,  sour cherry soup with creme fraiche, alfredo pasta with chicken and sun-dried tomatoes, and a white chocolate chef's hat  (signed by Chef Rudy) filled with milk chocolate mousse and red berries.

It was the Fourth of July that day, by the way. We didn't get so see any fireworks.  There really wasn't much of anything. I guess it makes sense, though, considering our location!

We went to the Art Gallery afterward to see the art that had newly been put up by the masters. There were Rembrandts, Picassos, Dalís, Chagalls, and more. It was so cool to be right there in front of them.  We settled our auction account for the Britto and picked our framing options for the Bellet Rob won.

Rob went downstairs to get our passports back - the Greek officials had required everyone to give theirs up to be examined while we were there  - while I went to our stateroom to change shoes and check on Jack. He was doing much better by then, and I relaxed knowing he was okay.


We went to the Vista Lounge for the show after that. Here's Jason Venner, our hilarious (and cute!) Cruise Director, opening the show.


I'm surprised this picture came out at all.  Until that night,  I had thought no photography at all was allowed, but I finally realized it was okay, just no flash. Well. I *thought* I had turned off  my flash, but it popped bright as anything when I took this picture of singer Annie Francis from Australia. I was so embarrassed, I practically threw my camera at Rob and buried my face!  Whoops. No more camera for me that night. The singer was okay, but she was kind of of the boring cruise-ship variety.

When Rob ordered drinks that night, and from then on from bar hostess Rebecca, she called him "Sir Bob." We thought that was highly amusing.


We walked through the casino on our way out of the Lounge, where they were trying to get everyone to do red, white, and blue kamikaze shots for a buck. No one was taking them up on it. So of course, we did. While a small crowd watched, we picked our shots and slammed them back. Everyone cheered. We laughed and left!


We made our way up to the Lido  Deck to photograph the big dessert  extravaganza that was going on that  night.

  There were desserts everywhere we looked!


The  Table  O' Breads


This was made of bread!

Everything chocolate that you could imagine!


Yep, still more desserts


That's it!

Phew. By that point, before we even ate anything,  I  had an upset tummy. Rob stayed behind to  get a few things to eat while I went downstairs to yet  again check on Jack.  We ate a few goodies after that, and then we went to bed.

Stay tuned for tomorrow:  Dubrovnik, Croatia!

Fin.

Comments

[Nadine]

Oh my goodness, bread and dessert- my version of heaven.

Pretty beach! How I would like to go for a swim...