Mouzakitis in Avliotes

Its villages Corfu, scattered in the wild nature with the tall olive trees, the small forests with the cypresses and the vineyards, are kept in excellent condition, with the colorful houses with tiled roofs and with minimal interventions of concrete buildings. All this fairytale setting has given me a sense of certainty that I would find old cafes. Unfortunately the results of my research were meager. Two or three marked cafes had just closed, with the main one being that amazing coffee shop, The Olympia of Theodoros Michalas in Lakones, who had just passed away. The price of weapons saved them Courtiers a coffee shop, which I present to you.

In an elongated low tiled building with ocher-colored walls and green windows with white frames, on the public and opposite a small plateau, it has been located for about a century. the cafe of the Mouzakitis family in Courtiers.

The same multicolor - enhanced with a pink on the underside of the walls - I came across inside the store. Metal green tables, amazingly simple wooden benches, an old wood stove, shelves with basic necessities and old photos on the wall were the backdrop of the interior.

The third generation of Mouzakites, Spyros, known as "Background", A new lad introduced us to the history of the cafe:

"My grandfather Theodoros 1928 started this business and was from the beginning a cafe and grocery store. We have photos where the whole senate is sitting in a row outside, on the narrow sidewalk of the then cobbled street and sunbathing watching the traffic. Besides, here, in the square of Aferesmenos, the processions always stop to make a small prayer. Young people may now prefer cafes, but in the past this cafe has enjoyed great fame with parties, songs accompanied by violin, accordion and guitar. However, despite the fact that I work in Tourism, I do what I can to work here in parallel and to keep it alive with my friends ".