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Welcome to Arillas => Arillas general information => Things to do => Topic started by: alyvin on April 12, 2007, 07:48:46 PM
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Hi, just wanted to know what other people do when it's raining. I tend to stay in my room reading or playing cards and then have a long boozy lunch. Does anybody do anything more exciting or have other suggestions? (other than sex!)
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Now thats a good one!
Usualy grab a comfey chair and a Mataxa in Thallasa, if it gets a bit cold they have a large patio type heater.
Or .....go for a walk...
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Long lunch with some wine that runs into late dinner with some more wine and of course with some meze in between with a beer chaser is always a guaranteed most excellent way to spend a rainy day :)
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We've only experienced 1 rainy day in corfu, and almost everyone
headed for the bar, where we watched a film(titanic) yuk. and
had a card afternoon, and a really good social time. (alcohol was involved).
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had 3 days of thunderstorms last time - absolutely fantastic, spent them in the portofino watching the lightening and the island disappearing under the cloud.
cards and alcohol were involved with us as well
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Never had a rainy day in Corfu, been lucky, but if it has rained on holiday anywhere its a case of a bar and alcohol for us too, funny that we all have that in common ay :-D !!
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We had 3 very stormy days with terrential rain (the bridge walkway by Ina's was washed out to sea !).
We spent it on the beach, in the downpour swimming in the sea and having a fantastic time. I think we actually got more wet in the rain than in the sea!! There were a few people sat under cover in tavernas and they must have thought we were insane. Nice to have the beach and the sea to ourselves tho :D :D :D
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depends where you are if i am on the beach then go for a swim it saves you getting wet lol,if back at the ranch read and drink and look dejected,if its one of the thunderstorms and cloud bursts we have seen then watch everything within 100 yards disapear from sight
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We must have been there the same time as Lozicle as we were staying in the Bardis Sun and had to walk round the back of the village to reach the bars because the beach road was out of bounds due to a torrential river running across it and the bridge being in the sea! I remember sitting in a taverna thinking "Who are those nutters in the sea!"
By the way Maggie you were lucky getting "Titanic" to watch. We got "The Terminal" (the most boring film ever) and "HellBoy" (the second most boring film ever).
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When we stayed in acharavi a few years back it chucked it down with rain on my birthday, having been soaked walking back from a Taverna we wandered back to the apts to see the barman sitting lonely at the pool bar, so we joined him for a couple of drinks, started getting chilly, and with permission, jumped into the pool fully clothed! that soon warmed us up!! At least that's something I can never do at home here in Blightly.
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So apart from jumping in Pools, we normally find our way to the Coconut to see what films they have on. Or we usually take Arrowwords books with us, play cards, catch up on the years reading... or just watch and wait (with an amstel nearby of course!)
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That's the best time to use a hire car. Get to those places that you always want to visit "Avrio" because it's such a nice day today.
Negg
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We must have been there the same time as Lozicle as we were staying in the Bardis Sun and had to walk round the back of the village to reach the bars because the beach road was out of bounds due to a torrential river running across it and the bridge being in the sea! I remember sitting in a taverna thinking "Who are those nutters in the sea!"
Lol :lol: We were staying at the Bardis too. On the evenings we spent it by the bar eating giant beans and bread. :D
If one of the nutters had blue hair it was me hehe
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By the way Maggie you were lucky getting "Titanic" to watch. We got "The Terminal" (the most boring film ever) and "HellBoy" (the second most boring film ever).
You've not seen Lost in Translation then? :-)
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Yes, you have a point there Joe. Maybe the Terminal was only the second most boring film ever. I've stopped watching critically acclaimed films now. Give me a tacky Hollywood blockbuster any day.
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I told a friend we were going to Arillas in September and a friend of theirs piped up saying you should not go to Corfu in September as it is the rainy season!? Please someone tell me this isnt true!?
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Well it did get a wee bit wet last september ;-)..but maybe it was a freak storm?,
we arrived on the 29th sept I think, and missed the River flowing down from the hills.!!!!!
I wouldn`t worry too much.. after all it is a very green Island and it can rain in a morning &
nice blue sky`s in the afternoon, either way it would not put me off going any time of year.
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Its not a case of it rains every day in September, you might have an odd day where it rains and then thats it, as kes said it can rain for half hour in the morning and then the rest of the day its a scorcher!
Panic not, it will still be hot and a spot of rain will not dampen your holiday in Arillas!
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Kes, that cheeky wink has not filled me with confidence!! We go on the 3rd of September so glad its not the end of the month! Cheers Smiffy, i will try not to panic, its just that im fed up with rain and when i go on holiday the less i see the better!!
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I understand what you mean, but youre at the beginning of September anyway, you'll be fine :-) !
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Kes, that cheeky wink has not filled me with confidence!! We go on the 3rd of September so glad its not the end of the month! Cheers Smiffy, i will try not to panic, its just that im fed up with rain and when i go on holiday the less i see the better!!
You will be fine...methinks someone was just a tad bit jealous and wanted to dampen (hee, hee pardon the pun!) your holiday spirits.
As mentioned in an earlier post the rain stops quickly and in the blink of an eye the sun is out and you will be lying by your pool! :-)
Eileenx
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September is my favourite time to go, its just that little bit cooler and if it does rain it really is spectacular. Also as every cloud has a silver lining (another bad pun-sorry!) there are substantially less of those pesky Mozzies in September especially if it rains.
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Thanks everyone feel better now!!
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Pg32. Don't worry about rain. We went near the end of september and they had had a heatwave before we arrived. We just got freak bad weather. It was the first time we went to Arillas and we still had a great time and it is the only resort we have returned to again.
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Mmmmmmmmmmm, quite looking forward to a drop of rain now, cant really believe i said that i hate rain, but eh Cards and a drink sounds OK..............
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We had our first visit to Corfu the middle of September two years ago and we were worried it would rain. It did, just before we got there which made all the roads very slippery because of the olive trees. We stayed in Agios Gordis and because it is down the bottom of a steep hill they couldnt pick our bags up on the day we left (it rained quite heavily) as they couldnt get the car down. But almost as soon as it started it stopped and the sun was out.
It did rain during the holiday too but only for about 1/2 hr.
We thought right, we will have a romantic evening watching the sun go down on the beach with a bottle of wine... We got all settled and cosy and it started to rain.. blast, we thought we were back in England... quick dash back to our studio which was almost on the beach anyway. I thought I would be really disappointed when it rained but it didnt last for long and it cooled everything down anyway and made a pleasant change. I should imagine that just as we get fed up with it raining here in the UK it could become just as tiresome if you have no change in the weather and it is sunny and hot all the time. Its nice to have a variation, as you can do better walks if its cooler, but I would feel very cheated if the weather was bad all the holiday.
Last year we went to Arillas the end of June and the weather was apparently pretty ropey a couple of weeks before we got there and then it was a "heatwave". You can never tell can you?
At least we should have a good summer here in the UK which is predicted and then when you go to Arillas in September you should have picked up a pretty good tan by then!
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Yes i was in Arillas last June and September, it was much warmer in September. I remember needing to take a coat out with me in June and I normally don't feel the cold.
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Yes i was in Arillas last June and September, it was much warmer in September. I remember needing to take a coat out with me in June and I normally don't feel the cold.
I remember having to buy a little jacket one year when we got caught out with the cool breeze at night time, small price to pay eh...................
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Corfu does cool more at night than other similar destinations but I really like that as sometimes I can find the heat overbearing, I love the sea breeze you get at night-time along the front of Arillas.
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I love watching the storms out at sea, the lightning looks fantastic and its not raining in Arillas. Viv
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I agree with Joe, if the heat has been abit much during the day the cool breeze of a night time is very welcome, especially when you go to bed, makes it easy to fall asleep.
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I've not been to Corfu deep into the summer months for some time though, I'm assuming Mid August the nights are pretty warm to?
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I assume they would be, thats why i cant go in the peak summer months, just too hot for me!
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We were there the two weeks before you blondegirl.
Stayed in Acharavi. The weather was not the best part of the fortnight. Really chilly in the evenings.
We were walking along the beach from Roda back to Acharavi and the heavens opened up and there was nowhere to shelter. We looked like a couple of drowned rats by the time we did find a shop door way to shiver in!
We also stayed in Arillas for one night and it was raining most of the day when we arrived and the next morning when we left! At least we were with the friendly people in Arillas.
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One of the last evenings we had in Arillas last year was brilliant! It didnt rain but it was pretty windy. The sea had been like a mirror all day and in the evening it was mad! Really rough.... I couldnt see through my hair as it was blowing everywhich way... all the beer mats were rolling off the tables. I loved it, we were watching the sunset in a bar on the front..everyone was stopping to take photos it was beautiful! At least it blows the mozzies away