This blog will cover countryside matters over the changing seasons, with additional comments on walks and food (home and taverna, and some recipes). My crossbreed Corfiot mutts Lulu and Bruni will also feature from time to time. I expect to blog every week or ten days, and maybe more frequently if there is something to inform you about. Watch this space!
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At the Casino
The town in a few weeks will be bursting with tourists, journalists and the idle curious who are always prominent wherever Royalty and VIPs gather.
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Walking Time is Here! 12-09-2015
If you’ve not kept in shape, it’s too late to train, for next Saturday – 19th September – opens the walking season.
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Scientology attempts to take over Corfu
It was a warm and sunny August day in 1968 when the ship anchored in Corfu harbour.
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How big is your carbon footprint?
Mine must be one of the tiniest in the Western world.
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Hilary’s Blog 14-07-2015
With the great 15 August celebration only a month away.
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Hilary’s Blog 27-06-2015
Loads of Toads
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Hilary’s Blog 19-06-2015
It’s not a surprise to learn that even Angela Merkel is ‘resigned’ to the possibility of a Grexit.
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Hilary’s Blog 04-06-2015
I have been watching on the Internet the weirdest BBC programme ever!
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Hilary’s Blog 29-05-2015
This month, my contribution was Courgette Pie
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How to teach cooking – Greek style
I reckon by mastering only these three techniques you could make at least twenty dishes.
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Afionas – The Garden Village of Corfu
If Corfu is the ‘Garden Isle’ then Afionas is its ‘Garden Village’
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Lafki – The Vista Loop – Corfu Walk
Rosemary Woodel presents the Vista Loop walk at Lafki
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Hilary’s Ramblings
Some Random Thoughts.
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Hilary’s Blog 11-04-2015
I’ve never known an Easter like it.
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Hilary’s Blog 21-02-2015
A slight hiccup occurred when we encountered a large herd of rather aggressive and sharp-horned ginger cows.
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Hilary’s Blog 02-02-2015
The weather window promised by website Weather Underground failed to materialise.
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Hilary’s Blog 20-01-2015
They used to make cars on Corfu!
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Hilary’s Blog 14-01-2015
Something quite remarkable happened to me yesterday.
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Egg and Chips in Strinilas
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Hilary’s Blog 11-01-2015
This is a bit off topic, having nothing to do with Corfu
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Hilary’s Blog 08-01-2015
The outside temperature was minus six at 7.30 this morning.
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Hilary’s Blog 02-01-2015
On the morning of the coldest night of winter so far, my car was encased in ice.
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Hilary’s Blog 30-12-2014
In my previous blog, The Ghosts of Christmasses Past, I mentioned ‘every foreigner’s nightmare Corfiot Christmas Dinner.
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Hilary’s Christmas Blog 24-12-2014
Right on cue, the Longest Night brought the first sharp frosts.
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Hilary’s Blog 19-12-2014
A notice about Walkers’ Christmas Lunch
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Hilary’s Blog 08-12-2014
You have to learn to trust me
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This Saturdays walk – Weather 04-12-2014
Note ——Thursday evening, and it appears that the weather is going to be awful for the next couple of days. I am not cancelling the Strinilas walk, but just letting you know that if it is raining as forecasted the walk will be postponed to the 27th. If the... read more
Hilary’s Blog 15-11-2014
Following Remembrance on the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, the time seems right to view the BBC’s 1964 documentary series ‘The Great War’. All 26 episodes, each 40 minutes long, are easily found on YouTube – just... read more
Hilary’s Blog 04-11-2014
Another sunny Saturday, another walk, this time in the West Coast Hills close to Giannades.
read moreWalking Liapades and the Olive Way 27-09-2014
Walking Liapades and the Olive Way in Corfu
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Hilary’s Blog 23-09-2014
A few unprecedented rainy days in July, and another wet spell in early September, have upset the usual pattern of autumn flowering.
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First walk of the Season 2014
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Hilary’s Blog 11-09-2014 – Puppy News
Unfortunately, he’s a Black Lab gone wonky, which presumably was the reason he was dumped.
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Hilary’s Blog 09-08-2014
On Wednesday, 30 July, the Superyacht Topaz was seen moored quayside at Corfu’s New Port. The vessel was launched in 2012 and at 147 metres long is the fifth largest privately-owned motor yacht in the world (the Azzam is currently the world’s largest at... read more
Hilary’s Blog 31-07-2014
Blowing my own trumpet (because no-one else is going to).
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Hilary’s Blog 21-07-2014
High on the list of my least favourite flowers, a parsley-like bloom is in the ascendency at the moment
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Hilary’s Blog – Talking of Peter Hitchens… A review of: Short Breaks in Mordor
Talking of Peter Hitchens… A review of: Short Breaks in Mordor Dawn’s and Departures of a Scribbler by Peter Hitchens He calls himself ‘the hated Peter Hitchens’, because of the bile directed at him from both sides of the political spectrum: From the... read more
Hilary’s Blog 15-07-2014
I suppose readers of The Corfiot in January 2001, when the Manmade Global Warming hysteria was starting to kick in, must have judged me as a contrarian
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Hilary’s Blog 12-07-2014
On 26 June, very early morning, I was walking Lulu and Bruni, and along our little country road some 50 metres I heard some squeaking from the bushes.
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Hilary’s Blog 30-06-2014
At a loose end in the Internet Cafe recently, I googled myself, as you do.
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Hilary’s Blog 23-06-2014
While the great rush of the spring flowering is now over, it’s true to say that there is never a season when Corfu is not in bloom, even in the baking heat of midsummer.
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Hilary’s Blog 01-06-2014
Sometime in the second or third week in June, the Corfu countryside tosses off its spring mantle and changes from green to burnt gold.
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Hilary’s Blog 22-05-2014
Now comes the season of the rambling, scrambling flowers, when each species seeks to surpass its neighbour for space and sunshine, and to outgrow the seeding grasses.
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Hilary’s Blog 16-05-2014
I must confess that when a local man approached me to design and lead a programme of around 20 walks for Corfiots, my first reaction was a mental double-take: Huh? Corfiots?? Walking???
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Hilary’s Blog 04-05-2014
We have a real Bookshop! For I think the first time ever, I have been obliged to make Bill Gates even richer. Against my wishes, but obligatory for a guidebook update job I have been offered, I bought a Microsoft Office programme. As my computer is a Mac, I... read more
Hilary’s Blog 29-04-14
Here are the newly-spotted flowers seen the week after Easter.
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Hilary’s Blog 24-04-14
Here come the Corfu Trailers! Or coincidence strikes again. I was sitting in the 19th Hole bar in Vatos chatting to a Dutch friend over an Easter Sunday Evening ouzo when in walked an exhausted-looking stranger, who sat down at a neighbouring table. Since she was... read more
Hilary’s Blog 22-04-14
Every Easter we delight in the spectacle of the island’s Judas Trees in full bloom.
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Walk with Hilary – Saturday, 19 April – Sinarades
Sinarades Walk
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Hilary’s Blog 18-04-14
The middle of April is perhaps the best time for Corfu’s wild flowers.
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Hilary’s Blog – Easter Week – 15-04-2014
Do take a trip this coming week along the Ropa Valley to look at the amazing display of Asphodels.
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Walk with Hilary 12-04-2014 Porta: The Oak Forest, Mengoulas and the High Tracks
Walk with Hilary 12-04-2014 Porta: The Oak Forest, Mengoulas and the High Tracks
read moreWalk with Hilary 05-04-14 Vatos: The ‘Best Beach in the World’
Vatos: The ‘Best Beach in the World’
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Walk with Hilary 29-03-2014 Pelekas: Along the valley to Sinarades
Walk with Hilary 29-03-2014 Pelekas: Along the valley to Sinarades
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