Vacation on Corfu Island: Sidari.
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Vacation on Corfu Island: Sidari.
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Oh, Sidari! This tiny borough on the northwest edge of the island. Albania in twenty
kilometers, closer, than Greece in Perama and Benitses, but desires to scramble over there
does not appear, either as however on Greece - well peer into the binoculars, as
well as only. Something they add in its home wine . Not tobacco, as our, but something be.
Word, small town, one and a half streets along beach.
If and be in Sidari hotels, they do not dash in the eye so, as in Paleokastritsa.
Afterwards on the tourist scheme we have read that 4 hotels of nonhigh category even so
be.
In Sidari we were brought by Scotland John, beside which he had some deals. The way
from Paleokastritsa to Sidari isn't long, approximately hour. Here are small distances in
general , as well as driving is slowly - the mountains. Coast in Sidari is similarly
Baltic beach (Estonian) - a thick dirt, which "reposers", once they have arrived
here, name "the sand". To be expiate plainly, is necessary leave on 200 meters
from the coast. In the cafe in the middle of Sidari hangs a big photography of Sidari in
1970 year: there were 10 small houses. In this cafe we fed our boy and drank a beer, but
ourselves be not steels, because John promised us the launch on the way back.
In general in Sidari is necessary go ones, who likes to lie motionless beside beach, but
at night come off himself in tavern or restaurant. Military, yes however, and civil
sailors must much like such places. Approximately such place is on the east coast, is
identified Ipsos - a long chain of restaurants, cafes, taverns along the bay,
separate from sufficiently broad sandy beach by car road. It is badly with the
sport in Sidari: we could not find tennis-court for that three hours, that we were there.
Volley-ball's grounds aren't in general no in Greece, it seemed for us. Single
stadium we saw in Benitses, and it becomes incomprehensible, where in general Olympic
Greek champions have had their drills. Even in nobody unknown "Maloretchka" near
Alushta there was the stadium under the develop socialism. But such tennis, which was in
the rest-home “Sudak”, situated in the same-named borough Sudak in Ukraine, not will
nowhere else and never. First, there was a long bench, to which all got acquainted.
Secondly, there were constant players, and, if you went to the end of September, most
certainly you meet there Kirill and Igor from Moscow, Sasha from Fergana, sculptor Ilia
from Moscow, Natalie from Obninsk, Irene from the Kharkov, but if some early, in the
august, other such warm company (Surnames of nobody did not interest. I afterwards met
Kirill in MRTI, where he was worked, and several years knew his surname, but afterwards I
has forget it. Through several years in the institute we have send an abstract his
postgraduate student, beside which it is render by the scientific leader). At the
beginning October 10 or 11 Julia from Moscow have left the rest-home, but October 24
or 25 so do and I. Krym was orange this time already .
On the fringe of Sidari there are small sandy coves with small beaches. Sea actively
destroys their, because the coast of Sidari 1970 year does not look like the coast 1998.
Near-by from Sidari to the left Channel d'Amour is, where one carry all tourists.
In Sidari, as, however and in all other boroughs, some problems appear with tourist
buses, basically Mercedes, which occupy nearly the whole road, and cars are compel to stop
and snuggle to walls, for to miss these at most huge buses for local roads . Some buses
are two-story. Sometimes two buses are meeting on the narrow street. Then two
Greeks in white shirts darts out from each and begin to manage a divorcing process.
After buses will be divorced successfully, both jump back, all its type letsing understand
that they have done its deals well.
Back from Sidari in Paleokastritsa Scotty John had go another way, on more small roads,
pass now and then through small mountain Greek sowed. In them along roads are often expose
tables with bottles home wine and honey (“The Honey is very good”, Scotty John
have said). Gradually machine of John (apropos, with right taxiing) went on one of the
most high mountain of Corfu. We have done a beautiful panoramic photos by the numerical
camera. I had allow John to copy their itself and use in its business. Over one more
mountain, we had render on that its side, which closes Paleokastritsa from the north in
place, which is identified Bella Vista, where carry buses of all tourists. Down you can
see the beautiful coves of Paleokastritsa, near-by seaborne - a rocky isle, on which
Odyssey's girlfriend had waited its back. She must much yearn, for to wait not
ashore, but on this rock.
Else a little down from mountains, we were renderd in Lacones, small hamlet, and have mend
in tavern to John's familiars. At dinner master further gave us from itself a big glass of
white home wine in addition to our glass. As far as John was a driver, he limited
himself by two or three goblets, Ann from Manchester didn't drink any wine, Marina
drank a few small goblets, but all rest, naturally, got for me, so the whole rest
day passed somehow small-noticeably, though, as far as I several times carried our boy to
be bathe in picina (swimming-pool), I, possible, and was not drunk, but was fooled
exactly. On the end of launch we have expressed a desire to buy a bottle of wine and have
got in the gift of one and a half liter a blame of master's own fabrication. Being drunk
in a day, it already did not render such nervously-paralytic action, as preceding. See,
one and a half liter is a rate perfect by many generations, which one no need to
transgress.
With this Ana from Manchester, strong grandmother about years 70, who takes a rest home
for oldmen in England, has happen a wondrous history. During the dinner in tavern we have
spoke about beautiful places, and all have come to a conclusion, that Corfu, certainly, is
the most beautiful, but there are other kind places on the Globe. In particular, Ana was
two year back in Moldavia. I, certainly, have supported a talk, as far as 10 years back
too was in Moldavia too, if one bear in mind not itself Moldavia, but former our
Verkhovina, this is really magic place, capable to compete with Corfu Island. By the end
of the talk, seems, I manage to convince Ana in that it's necessary visit Moldavia not in
the April, when she was there, but in the September or in the October even, when it will
become orange-yellow. Certain hardly understand anxiety caused several times pronounced
word Island, but maybe a hotel was on some island where Ana lived in Moldavia, though
something at all was impossible recall, to in Moldavia were an island. Some doubt appeared
and in Ann's head, because on the last evening before the departure she has brought a cap,
from the inscription to which we have understand that it was on Maldivian islands! We
didn't to develop this subject, as far as it was to speak about else. The most of
funîå - I at all could not be on Maldivian islands 10 years back, because I has got my
passport only this year June 3 after three years of struggle with ministry of
defense for human rights.
Beside Ann, in spite of its age, absolutely transparent, sugar teethes, look like teethes
of our boy.
With this John else more wondrous history has happen, on which one possible to read
in the section Scots John.
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