In The Footsteps of Durrells.

A half of tourists, visiting Corfu Island, speaks, that they dreamed to visit it, because in childhood they read the  Jerald Durrell's book "My family and the other animals ". We, certainly, knew about the existence of this book, but only in this 2000 year before departure we have taken it in the library and have taken it with ourself - for the third year of our travelings on Corfu. We roared, reading some of its part aloud. Certainly, all was changed here - there were no dusty roads, and the snakes, and the turtles and the скорпионы and the  ужи have hidden somewhere. But the Greeks, Greeks have remained the same as so as Englishmen, however.

We prefer western, "Italian" shore of the Island, but Durrells lived on east, "Greek-Albanian" coast, therefore we should undertake special travelings to visit the "Durrell's" places. One such traveling we have undertaken in the past  year, not suspecting about it. One day we were acquainted with one representative of firm "Chalocopoulos Travel" on the tourist exhibition "Otdych-1998" in Moscow.  In the summer I met him already being on Corfu in the computer shop in Corfu-Town. It has appeared, that this fellow Georges is the son of the Greek and Russian, freely speaks in Russian and in Greek. In one day he has invited us to visit the office of his firm to discuss possibilities of joint work for. Probably, it was on Saturday or Sunday, because in his office we were delivered by our friends - Greek communist Spyro and his wife filippean Mirna on perfectly dead "Toyota", indistinguishable from our "Tavriya". The way "to" was qiute normal, but on the "back" way suddenly Spiro began to ride about 100 kilometers per hour. By flying up on a completely inconceivable velocity to any house, he promptly has opened the cover of ingene and he has snatched out from the hands of women at home a hose, from which she watered something in a court yard and he has become to fill up by water the engine of his car, and then the radiator, in which the water has boiled. All has become clear for us - all of you can see on the backs of our roads "Tavriua's" with opend covers. The guys - ukraininans can not manage with thermostates. Something wrong material they thrust there, in thermostates. Eventually on advice of one master I cut off from ukrainian thermostate all its contents - only after that "Tavria" did not begin to boil.

The office of firm has appeared on silent small street in Kanoni, on a hill, just opposite of "Mouse Island", Pontikonissi, occupying a part rather large white private house. Then we have read in tourist guide, that this is one of "Darrell's" places, "The Snow-White House", and that its owner is the descendant of that taxi driver, Spiro - American Chalicopoulos, which helped Durrells on the Island.

In this, 2000 year, we have decided to go round all the bays of the "right" east shore of Corfu Island, in which it is possible to make the way by car. All of them are different, but everyone they are very beautifully looked from the road on a demi-transparent mountains of Albania's background and completely blue gulf, on which in all possible directions the snow-white ships, spacecrafts, yachts and boats are streaming. One day we have departed in Kalami and Kulura - two adjacent small bays, by which from a highway at first one road is leaded. By contracting at first to the right, and by passing a beach through, on distant of it we have detected one of "Durrell's" houses - "The Snow-White House". Now it is leased by the British travel agency, and in the right wing of it is small tavern, inside which some photos of Durrell's family placed on the walls, micromemorial, by the word. Majority of the tourists just are shown this house, as so how the most "Durrel's House". In adjacent, absolutely small bay, in Kulura, it is good to glance by somewhat floating, on a yacht or by a boat, and to have dinner or to have supper in a tavern directly at the breakwater enclosing a bay.

The "Durrell's Snow-White House" in Kalami.	Kulura, the smallest bay on the left of Kalami.

We could not discover the other "Durrell's" Houses on the Island. The StrawBerry-Pink Villa is located on the backs of "Aegli Hotel" in Perama, it is a little downwards from on the south of Corfu-Town. The Daffodil-Yellow Villa is somewhere about Kontolaki near Corfu-Town by the road in Dasia. Maybe its are situated on a private territory.