Another ferry.

Another weather alarm clock yesterday, this time it was Thor throwing his thunderbolts about. The drive down to Igoumenitsa was through torrential rain but it started slowing down while we were on the ferry to Corfu and today we have sun, yay! I am now staying with a Corfiot family at the end of a track in the middle of nowhere. The apartment is the ground floor of their house which I think is actually their son's place but they need the money so rent it out in the summer. Villi tells me he is an unemployed agronomist but I think he may mean he normally does people's gardens and with the current crisis people cannot afford to get the gardener in. He is busy anyway he grows most of his own fruit and veg and also has chickens and turkeys. He doesn't waste his grapes on wine he turns them into grappa and I am now the proud possessor of a bottle to go with the lemons and eggs Lena his wife gave me. Lovely people. Yesterday it took me hours to find my new digs so I stayed put in the afternoon and had a few beers. Today I explored Corfu town, it seems a nice place with the warren of streets like a maze but it was full with two cruise liners on the jetty, one of which was the Oriana, so I went up to the castle to get away from the tourists. The forecast is good and I plan to explore the island and go to the morning market in town for fruit and veg etc, it might be a quiet week blogwise.