GREECE 



Sunset^ The Achilleion ^ Corfu 



SUNSETS are wonderful in Corfu, and 

 from the Achilleion one looks at the sink- 

 ing sun across the whole width of the island, 

 which is about six or eight miles at this, its 

 southern end. 



I think it was on the occasion of King Edward's 

 second visit to Corfu, that he came up to the 

 Achilleion just about sunset-time, after it had 

 rained all day and the gateway was slippery with 

 mud and gleaming with puddles. Pai'petti, the 

 district mayor, a prosperous peasant from a 

 neighbouring village, had prepared a speech, in 

 English if you please ! with which to welcome 

 him. Now a peasant's prosperity may be 

 measured by his girth, and Pai'petti was very 

 prosperous, and it was his first presentation to a 

 king ; unfortunately he slipped and fell, and his 

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