The Daily Telegraph have reported in their travel section that Corfu holidays represent good value for money - they comment:
Rumours of Greece’s demise as a value-for-money destination are greatly exaggerated. Greece is significantly cheaper for 2010, with prices down by 9.5 per cent compared with 12 months ago, according to the Post Office Worldwide Holiday Costs Barometer, which places Greece 12th in its league table of 30 countries. This is partly because the euro is down on last year, but also because real local prices have gone down too, giving Greece an even bigger edge over its next-door rival Turkey, where the survey claims prices are a whopping 44 per cent higher than 12 months ago.
The Greek tradition of open-handed giving to strangers is still alive and kicking. When I first started walking over the cobbled mule paths of Samos, a lush, hilly island, some 30 years ago, I was touched by the kindness of farmers and villagers who would press small gifts of food or drink on me – a handful of almonds, some figs, a bowl of fresh sheep’s milk, a slice of watermelon, whatever was in season. Walking the same trails with Ramblers Holidays in October, I found this spirit – which the Greeks call philoxenia – lives on.
By island standards, Samos is amazingly fertile, with small streams that chuckle through narrow valleys choked with plane trees, neat patchwork fields bursting with tomatoes, courgettes, aubergines and – in the autumn – huge yellow pumpkins and vineyards whose muscat grapes produce some of Greece’s better island wines.
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More information about Corfu is at http://www.yourcorfu.net which includes both a map of the island and the latest weather in Corfu
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