The British influence on Corfu

This is what people in Corfu call a Corfu Beer Red (Κόκκινη). I call it a stout, and a damn good one.

This Cheimarios company’s Tzitzibira. You’ll know that drink as Ginger beer. It is both milder and less sweet than what I’m used to from Bundaberg Ginger Beer.

This is Royal Ionian’s Ginger Ale (they’re affiliated with Corfu Beer). At least this manufacturer knows the Hellenic word for ginger, πιπερόριζα “pepper report”.

Was happy with this one, it had much more of a kick.

This is a poster advertising cricket, from Anagennisi “Rebirth” Cricket Club:

In fact, from what the leader board of the recent 1st Olympia T20 Cricket tournament in Corfu tells me, there are several cricket teams in Greece, and there’s a lot more Pakistani than Greek names in them. There will have been a Corfiot/Pakistani encounter, but it looks like it happened a few years ago.

So the people of Corfu learned from the British overlords:

• how to make ginger beer,
• how to play cricket,
• how to have imposing parks,
• and how to make stout.

This place really is anti-Malia.

Malia tourist resort in Crete is everything crap about Britain, unadjusted and unrepentant. Cretans talk about the place like an infestation they have to put up with. (They don’t like drunken chavs one bit, but they do like their money.)

Corfu is looking right now like everything good about Britain, gently assimilated.