Day 28 Athens to Corfu

Our flight to Corfu was at 10am so we dropped our rental car off at the Athens Airport then took the easy hour long flight to our last Greek stop, the island of Corfu. At the other end we picked up another hire car, this dropping off a dirty car and picking up a clean one a couple of hours later works well!

We are staying on the beach in Roda which is about an hour's drive from Corfu town and the airport. The first and continuing thing we noticed was the massive piles of garbage on the side of the roads. Apparently the issue has been going on for over a year, the locals that live near the tip say it is too appalling to live by and are picketing the gates and refusing municipal trucks access. The local government's recommendation is to keep your rubbish at home, however everyone just leaves it in the street.

Our hotel choice seems rather lovely and there aren't too many tourists yet. The beach is a little disappointing, we had read it was sandy with a few pebbles but that description should be reversed to very pebbly with a little sand.

We took the nice walk into the busy part of town, here the beaches are sandier but still not the great beaches we are used to at home.