Message posted by Guest on 21 October 2008 at 8:22am - IP Logged
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My last rental for the year has just sent me an e mail ........no complaints about the villa but the people had not been for many years and after visiting places they had remembered from 20 years ago said they would never be returning to the island again ,as wait for it................................................... to commercial ,now altho our place is 10 minutes from Kavos by car ,they didnt go there so what would they have said then,Who knows .thede been to sidari kassiopi dassia corfu town messonghi and paxos ... paxos commercial .. or having been for 30 years dont i see progress. or is that commercial...Weve been to other islands over the years and other continenets, but wouldnt want to retire anywhere else ..or perhaps ime blinkered .... NAH...they must not have had corfuitis ....
Message posted by Susanna on 21 October 2008 at 12:00pm - IP Logged
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I dont like the commercial aspects of life. My Doctor (Ive just been diagnosed with a stomach ulcer) said to me "No Hurry, No Worry and No curry" and I can handle all that in Corfu. Corfu is not commercial at all. Its built up areas like maybe Sidari are not OTT- infact they are pleasant. People who think Corfu is commercial are Crazy. Its just right
Message posted by Trace (Profile Location Assistant) on 21 October 2008 at 1:26pm - IP Logged
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Some visitors use the word commercial, when in some cases they perhaps mean "Anglified"....ie. English breakfasts, John Smiths, karaoke etc and perhaps not as much Greek as they'd remembered many years ago.
Sadly, that seems to happen just about everywhere to a certain extent.
Message posted by Buxworth on 21 October 2008 at 2:10pm - IP Logged
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Quote: Originally posted by Brian .Maureen on 21 October 2008
My last rental for the year has just sent me an e mail ........no complaints about the villa but the people had not been for many years and after visiting places they had remembered from 20 years ago said they would never be returning to the island again ,as wait for it................................................... to commercial ,now altho our place is 10 minutes from Kavos by car ,they didnt go there so what would they have said then,Who knows .thede been to sidari kassiopi dassia corfu town messonghi and paxos ... paxos commercial .. or having been for 30 years dont i see progress. or is that commercial...Weve been to other islands over the years and other continenets, but wouldnt want to retire anywhere else ..or perhaps ime blinkered .... NAH...they must not have had corfuitis ....
I have a house in the south of Corfu and can say that the area is not commercialised apart from Kavos and St George. Everyone who has stayed in our house says how uncommercialised and really Greek the place is. I think that it may be the case that you 'always get one' and you just got that one.
Message posted by carol oxford on 21 October 2008 at 3:26pm - IP Logged
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Hi Buxworth,
Do you rent your home out to other people or just friends, do you have a link to booking, prices etc.We are spending our last week out of 3 in the south next summer.
Message posted by Buxworth on 21 October 2008 at 3:30pm - IP Logged
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I think it's all pretty relative really and one mans meat is anothers poison. Corfu has become more commercialised of course, as Buxworth said above St. George is now counted as commercialised, I remember camping on the beach many years ago with just the company of a distant one or two tavernas.
Again as said by Trace, Anglisised, yes, Corfu remember has long had British links and was absolutely first resort Island to cater for the new package tourism craze of several decades ago.
You can still find the essential Greek way of life on Corfu away from the other stuff, you can find it much easier in other areas of Greece, but I think a lot of people like the mix of commercial/less commercial found on Corfu.......
Eco
Message posted by Guest on 21 October 2008 at 9:29pm - IP Logged
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like buxworth our place is in a greek village in the south, I even advise people when they book by phone that its a peaceful part of corfu....already got repeats for next year as ,as/
1 comment...... "didnt realise there were still places where everyone makes you feel so welcome and cant do enough to help"
But thats corfu for you!!!! .
Message posted by shell98 on 21 October 2008 at 9:46pm - IP Logged
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hi
I agree it is relative, have been going to sidari, on and off for 12 years,.....yes things have changed....more appts in thr canal'd'more, people outside some of the restaurants trying to entice you in, but the deep rooted feel of the place is the same the people are the same people and i can still find without any great difficulty that sidari i found 12 years ago and hope to keep finding for many years to come.
shell
Message posted by Buxworth on 22 October 2008 at 11:01am - IP Logged
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Quote: Originally posted by Brian .Maureen on 21 October 2008
like buxworth our place is in a greek village in the south, I even advise people when they book by phone that its a peaceful part of corfu....already got repeats for next year as ,as/
1 comment...... "didnt realise there were still places where everyone makes you feel so welcome and cant do enough to help"
But thats corfu for you!!!! .
The dillema is that in trying renting our villa, we have to tell people how wonderful it is in the south of Corfu. While and same time we don't want too many people to know because if becomes popular then it will lose the very charm and originallity that visitors love.
Message posted by Guest on 23 October 2008 at 8:11am - IP Logged
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Buxworth .... last year i put a thread on about someone i worked with not realising that after corfu town there is life ... A few people responded that they had never been south and would visit next time ..... some did and guess what... they were impressed so while part of me says keep it to the likes of me and you but part of me says let everyone see what we do ....
Message posted by Andy7 on 28 October 2008 at 10:26pm - IP Logged
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Believe me, I have travelled to most of the main Greek Islands and several parts of the mainland and there is more 'Greece' in Corfu than anywhere else.
Andy
Message posted by Lind on 29 October 2008 at 1:57am - IP Logged
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I agree - this year I have been to Crete and Kefalonia and while Kefalonia is in no way commercialised as a whole, there are still pockets and Argostoli I did not like! Crete is beautiful for scenery, but the larger towns are very commercialised. Roll on 2009 and back to beloved Corfu, which for me has the true essence....
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