Med Trip - June 13

Today our luck ran out. We woke up to rain. After breakfast we decided to wait a little while to see if things cleared. We wanted to go to old town Corfu, a distance of 3.2 km. Which the cruise line was charging $16US per person for round trip shuttle. We could see the city from the boat. While we waited to decide what to do, it poured and thundered continuously. Then they decided to close the gangway for the safety of passengers. It did let up about 11 o'clock and the gangway was opened. We decided to take a chance, but took a taxi at 5 euros each just in case we got caught in another deluge. We had a few sprinkles but then it improved snd we had a good time exploring the old city with it's narrow marble streets, red steepled churches and old fortresses. We came back by foot for a very late lunch and relaxed in our rooms until it was time to get dressed for formal night dining. Tonight was surf and turf night.
The day ended as it began. Having avoided going to the main stage show at 8PM, which featured an opera singer, we met up with sister G at the piano bar, and she told tales of having seen the last part of the show and it did not feature opera, but musical show tunes. Before I could get my wits about me, I found myself nursing my wine in the main stage audience for the 10 o'clock show. Yes, there were many show tunes from The sound of Music, South Pacific, etc., but sung in a clearly operatic fashion. Julie Andrew's voice never went up like that at the end of a song. On s good note, we could set our clocks back an hour overnight as we leave Greece for the last time and enter Croatia.

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