The Chilling Room (Paxos)

Member Name: gollygumdrops

Product:	Paxos
Date:	10/08/00 (433 review reads)
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Advantages: Quiet, pretty

Disadvantages: Quiet, but still commercial

Paxos is a wonderful little island just to the south of Corfu. Boats that really do not qualify as ferries, more like converted fishing boats, take tourists over just for the day, or for a longer stop.

Travelling independently I went to Paxos for a few days to relax after over doing things a bit in Ipsos.

Locals greet the boats and you can get cheap accommodation when you arrive. I stayed in a small house which the owner used during the winter. In the summer he stayed in a tiny part built house in the garden and rented out his family home. He was using the rentals to fund the building of a larger house.

What passes for the main town in Paxos is little more than a village. There are plenty or restaurants and bars but you are unlikely to do too much damage to your liver here as most holiday makers are older couples.

Food is good greek fare and you are not overwhelmed with the adverts for British food and the menus with photos on that you get in Kavos!

The beaches are pebble rather than sand, and the water is crystal clear. This is a great place for reading and a little snorkling. There are olive groves all over the place and plenty of people getting on with normal lives away from the tourism industry.

This is certainly not an island for the clubbing set. If you want action you are in the wrong place, but Paxos is beautiful, quiet and rather Greek. I would recommend it if you are alone or with your significant other and want time to sit back, think and take life at a slower pace for a while.

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