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Day 13 - Wed 30 Sept 09

Gjirokastra -> Corfu

up at 06:30 for a 07:00 breakfast, and then a 'taxi' down the hill to the main road to catch the bus to Saranda on the coast. The bus is another battered old D303, and it climbed up and over the hills at a snails rate with one old boy jumping off as often as he could for a pee. The trip's only supposed to take a hour, but it was gone 09:30 by the time we arrived. Cutting it a bit fine as the ferry for Corfu was supposed to leave at 10:30.

Hydrofoil to Corfu

Jumped into a 300lk taxi to get to the port. After a bit of a run around to find an agent that would sell a ticket (€19.50), made it to the port building which was rather posh. Immigration was easy and I collected another stamp. The hydrofoil only takes forty minutes to get to Corfu, and it was pretty empty, with lots of empty seats.

Arrived on Corfu and got through immigration with no issues, and walked into town. Found the ferry agency and swapped the Internet tickets for some real ones for the trip to Venice. Continued the walk into town and found the hotel we'd booked for tomorrow night - Good news, they have a room for tonight as well, so we don't have to muck around swapping hotels.

Had a quick shower and then headed out to explore, and I have to say that I wasn't that impressed. It's full of tourists and shops selling rubbish to tourists. Had a very expensive lunch and then headed back to the hotel. Out again much later for another expensive meal that was no great shakes.