The 125th Edition Agiot This Month Cover Photo. Simon’s World Nature. Page 1 Page 13 Pages 26-27 Agiotfest. Tickle ties the knot. The Legend of Nikolaos Pierris and Nazli Pages 2-4 Page 14 Hanoum. Pages 28-29 Saturday Walks. Corfu Property Trail &Ocay Property. Page 5 Pages 15-16 Village and Island News. Letters to the Editor. Pages 29-34 Gooner’s Gags Page 5 Pages 17-20 HTC - Events. Nick the Clock’s World. OCAY Villas. Page 35 Pages 6-8 Page 21 An Englishman in Italy. Effrosyni Writes. Bespoke Property. Page 36 Pages 9-10 Page 22 Poppy Appeal - Official Receipt. Weather. Hilary’s Ramblings. Page 37 Page 10 Pages 23-24 Video Corner. Aunty Lula’s Love-Bites. Page 10 Page 24 Advertising. The Way Things Are and Were. 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WITH A RE-FORMED LINE-UP Katerina Anthi is interested to sell her knitwear and such things. I gave her your email address. SONIA GRAMMATIKOU [Beautiful Classical Piano] Further I have a friend (also Katerina) who has bees and she makes of course honey and also ointments from the bee products. It would be good to meet later in the Spring We talk later. Many greetings, Antoinette Goes Bryn and Sue have booked their Join the party 7 Mile Limit flights for Agiotfest have you? Sara from AF 17 Natasa Katehi and sponsor Robert Bennett And we soon will be AGIOTFEST SPONSORS Main Sponsors Extremely SKMS Wet Woodbrook Group Spear Travels Vrionis Roadhouse Music aeolos BEACH - RESORT http:// www.aeolosbeach.gr/ Accomodation Sunrise Cars Daylong Corfu Beer 100+ Club AELOS BEACH RESORT to suit all budgets Green Island Mousehouse Sally’s Bar Including: • Adrian Ward (http://realcorfu.com) • Hotel Telesillas, Kontokali • Nikolas’s Taverna, Agni • Anne Hodgson • In Action gym • NSK • Aqualand • Jo & Mel Sperling • Pat & Gina Brett • Avis Owen • Ken & Jan Harrop • Paul & Jan Scotter • Barry & Stella Knight • La Tabernita Mexicana • Posidonio Restaurant Agios Giordis • Big Bite Restaurant, Benitses • Lennart & Sanna • Rob Tinkler • Bob & Jill Carr • Les & Chris Woods • Robert Bennett • Bob Bakker • Lionel Mann • Sarah Young • Chas Clifton • Lynne Cahill • Sephora Shop • Compass Café, Kontokali • Margareta Rodehn • Simon & Lin Baddeley • Corfu Trail Properties • Maria. Driving School • Star Bowl • David Dickinson • Martin & Tracey Stuart • Steve Young • Derek & Carole Pullen • Michael Spiggos, Firebrand Ra- • Spyros Kaloudis, Dentist dio (http://www.firebrandrr.co.uk/ • Dimitris Krokidis (http:// michael-spiggos) • Sue Done corfuwall.gr) • Mickey Lowe • Tavola Calda • Gouvia Marina • Miri Widdicombe • Trevor Whybrow • Henk Van Der Does Neil Hendriksen • • Vassilis Pandis Saturday, 24 March. ACHARAVI: Dandalo Tower Saturday Walks (2 hours **). Meet at Dimitra SM, Acharavi High Street, 10.15 for 10.30 start. Lunch to be arranged. Saturday, 3 March. STAVROS: Woodland Ways NOTE: Dandalo is one of the undiscovered (2 hours ***). Meet at Coyevinas, the junction for highlights of North Corfu. (This walk was previously Stavros 2 kms after Agii Deka, 10.00 for 10.30 start. cancelled.) Lunch at Areti's Place, Agii Deka. NOTE: The walks where you think you will meet Saturday, 31 March. ERMONES: Mount Oberon and Titania! (This walk was previously Tsamourou and the Theotoki Valley cancelled.) (2 1/2 hours ***). Meet at Dizi Bar, at entrance to the Grand Mediterraneo Hotels, Ermones, 10.00 for Saturday, 10 March. STRINILAS: The Karst 10.30 start. Lunch at Tristrato. Plateau (2 hours ***). Meet at Stamatis Taverna, NOTE: More amazing wild flowers. Strinilas, 10.00 for 10.30 start (short onward car journey). Lunch at Stamatis. NOTE: Easy walking outwards; very rough underfoot return. Gorgeous views. (This walk was previously cancelled.) Saturday, 17 March. KOKKINI: Circuit to Vatos and Kokkini (2 hours **). Meet at Maria's Bar, next to the SHELL petrol station between Aqualand and the Kefalovrisso Roundabout, Kokkini, 10.00 for 10.30 start. Lunch at Tristrato. NOTE: The wild flowers should be coming into Tower from the 4th Crusade bloom. Effrosyni Moschoudi mailed in; Letters to the Editor Dear Paul, Editor’s cooments: Thank you for another great issue, and for including my post in it. It was a lovely surprise. Please note for POTS AND KETTLES? future ref, my last name is Moschoudi, not Mouschoudi :)))Have a wonderful weekend, and ‘This is part of The Associated Press’ ongoing effort to fact- check misinformation that is shared widely online, including thank you again. I will make sure to share � work with Facebook to identify and reduce the circulation of Best, Effrosyni Moschoudi false stories on the platform.’ Ed: Thank you Effrosyni, loved your childhood mem- ………….. ories, and sorry for the typo. Thank you for reading our Agios Ioannis newsletter. It is joyous to see the readership increasing to its best level so far. Andy Lawrie by carrier pigeon from Scotland; Anne Mann from Brantford, Ontario. Thanks for the mag. I’ve had a good read at it and it’s a great piece of Hi thank you for the note for our amazing beautiful tongue-in-cheek fun. granddaughter.she saw more in her 26 years than most Particularly liked the subtle Bowie teaser! of us see in our lifetime. She travelled the world and Regards left an amazing legacy .hope your family is all well . We Flashman would love to come to Corfu again love Anne and Ray. Ed: And I say to myself, welcome to the Land that Time forgot, Ed: Sad times Anne, look forward to visiting here again. Baldrick (The Comic With A conscience ) Apparently Vegan is an old Apache Indian word meaning 'Bad Hunter' If you only get your info from the news, you wouldn’t have seen this. London. Marching for the nhs. Now ask yourselves why media would hide this?? Continued on Page 7 Continued from Page 6 Continued on Page 8 Continued from Page 7 That’s’ All Folks ! Every resort should have one. Agios Ioannis does (you're reading it) - and so does Moraitika The Insider’s Guide to Moraitika - Effrosyni Moschoudi Reviewed by Hilary Paipeti renown). Neil wrote about this time in his lovely book about Corfu, A Heart's Odyssey. The family cleared off I HAVE QUITE A HISTORY WITH MORAITIKA from the area when tourists arrived; they would find AND MESSONGHI, though I have never lived anywhere youngsters sleeping it off on their front porch, or near either place. My initial contact was in 1981, my first indulging in behaviour in their garden that really should (of three) years 'repping' for a tour operator. I covered be enjoyed privately, indoors. Perama and Benitses and was often called in to handle coach transfers as far down as Messongi, especially for My very first Book of Walks, published in 1987, our weekly 'Greek Night' excursion at Tripa Taverna in featured a hike that began in Messonghi. It followed the Kinopiastes. (then) narrow dirt track to Boukari, turned inland to Kouspades, then took a long series of paths and olive At that time, the new road bridge into Messonghi was grove tracks back through Agios Dimitrios and Spileo to just a glint in the local council's eye; these days, you Messongi. Most of this is asphalt now, and the coast road hardly realise there is a river below you at all. But back is busy in summer. then, the river crossing was way inland, over a terrifying concrete slab that required a 90 degree turn onto it and off It took a while for Moraitika to take my attention as again on the other side. No railings, and just wide enough Messonghi had done. But eventually real estate business for a 50-seater coach, with inches to spare on each side of took me into the Old Village, set on the hill on the the tyres. Smile! You're the Rep! landward side of the main road. Along with the old part of Messonghi - the remnants of the fishing hamlet at the The coach then had to negotiate a narrow riverside river mouth - this location indicates that these two road into the resort. No wonder most people in those days neighbouring settlements have always been real left their transport on the Moraitika side of the waterway habitations, and not plastic-coated summer set-ups like and took one of the little fishing boats across - on the Saint George and Kavos. Which makes them rather like shortest ferry trip on the planet, as summertime resident another 'real' village that also hosts summer visitors - of Effrosyni Moschoudi describes it. At summer low tide course I'm talking about our own Agios Ioannis. when the river was at its seasonal low, you could wade across the mouth. With the giant road now allowing easy It is the old section of Moraitika (by the way, it's access between the villages, I doubt anyone bothers with pronounced 'Mor-eye-tika' and NOT 'Mor-ee-atika') that fishing boats anymore.