First trip to Ioannina - part 6

Yes, IKEA - one of the main reasons for going on this trip! The next morning, after a pretty hellish night in our miserable room, the hotel actually provided us with a very decent buffet breakfast, but not the full American one they promised - a leanish continental with lots of decent coffee. We rushed off to rescue the car from the public garage and raced back to the hotel to return the pass key and retrieve our bags which the proprietor had cunningly managed to keep as guarantee we would return with the car park pass! Glad to be on the road again, we arrived just after IKEA had opened to be met by a charming young lady who told us we could have breakfast there from 9:00 a.m. for €1.4 with as many refills of their Dow Egbert's coffee as we could drink! Lesson to remember for the next time!!


Some not very interesting photographs of the IKEA store - here to satisfy the curiosity of Corfu dwellers who've been waiting years for this to happen!



The usual three hour trip around and about IKEA found us a few Euros less in pocket but happy as we just can't get reasonably priced bits and pieces in Corfu. Load up the car and head for Igoumenitsa in the hopes of getting on an earlier ferry which, at this time of year, shouldn't be a problem - and it wasn't, just a one hour wait drinking coffee opposite the entrance to the port.









We saw Santa's little helper trying to get a lift - different!!











On the ferry back to Corfu we had some lovely views of the island, the water seemed to have an oily, lazy look about it - dead calm until the ship cut through giving us these soft waves.








And beautiful sunsets.













Back home and our own bed......