Corfu; Sunday, 21 July, 2019

I had an excellent night sleep – the combination of a swim and hot shower immediately before bed clearly had relaxed my quite a bit – so I was quite late down to breakfast, arriving with only about 30 minutes left of service and then having to quickly head back to my room to pack so that I could check out on time.

After checking out I wandered down the peninsular road towards the palace of Mon Repos. The palace was built on a headland as the summer residence of the British Governor General and served this purpose for a number of decades. Following the end of British rule it still continues to be an important building and it was even the place where Philip Mountbatten, now the Duke of Edinburgh, was born.

The palace itself has been turned into a museum, telling both the story of the palace and some of the archaeology and development of the island. This includes a number of artefacts that have been found at the two ancient temples that have been discovered in the palace grounds.

Having taken in the museum I then went for a long wander through the palace grounds taking in the two temples before heading back to the street and picking up the bus into town.

I stopped for a late lunch in a very nice café in the very centre of the town and spent quite a bit of time just watching the world go by, before heading back through the Old Town to the bus stop and picking up the bus back to the hotel.

Back at the hotel I picked up my luggage from the baggage room and then waited the 10 minutes or so before my transfer back to the airport arrived.

I checked my bag in at the airport and crossed my fingers that it would actually make it back this time.

A couple of hours later, and about halfway through the delivery of bags mine came round on the belt at Heathrow airport.