Eric’s 2024 Athens to Zagreb Trip

Today we visited Corfu (the island), beginning with a bus tour, a stop at Bella Vista viewpoint over Paleokastritsa Bay, and a walk through Makrades village, and followed by lunch and a tour of Corfu (the city). The trip to Makrades involved a bus trip up a mountain with very narrow lanes. At one town, there was a stop light at each end of town, so traffic goes through the town (several hundred meters) only one way at a time.

Aboard ship, we had discovered a few of the passengers and Maja (our Trip Experience Leader) were boardgamers, so I looked up potential game stores. In Corfu, I went looking for a Eurogame to purchase for play on the ship. I walked out of the old town tourist area to Digital Fantasy, which seemed a likely prospect to find Eurogames. Unfortunately, they were more focused on other games (collectible card games, wargames) and had only a small Eurogame section with little interesting to me. Fortunately, the clerk directed me to another store called Public. It was in the old town, so I headed back.

In Public, I followed signs to the second floor, and a clerk approached me, and I asked (in English) if they had any Eurogames. She said no, but I looked over her shoulder and walked to the sign on the far wall that said Eurogames (in English). The selection was poor, but I found Ticket to Ride Ευρωπη (Europe), which is a reasonable game for gamers and a nice game to introduce non-gamers to Eurogames. So I bought that.

Of course, I also went chocolate hunting in Corfu, without succeess. There was some but nothing that looked like it was worth the calories.

Ticket to Ride Ευρωπη had only Greek rules, but I downloaded English from BoardGameGeek, and our ship printed it for me (just one page).