Ten days ago we returned to Greece but we were unaware that we were flying in to Storm Daniel too! We touched down at Preveza airport in high humidity, and storm clouds built overnight, bringing torrential rain, strong winds, thunder and lightning. Our boat was due to be relaunched the next day and we watched …
Incredibly, it’s over a month since our last blog and, as you can see, we have returned to the mountains. We flew from Preveza to London and spent a week catching up with family and friends, having a particularly special evening at Dishoom where Gill, Ros, Sarah, Helen and I met up with Anita and …
We really feel we’ve arrived in the Ionians. The weather has warmed up rapidly as has the sea and we’re grateful to be able to leap in for long cooling swims in crystal clear water. We’re making our way slowly around Ithaca, the smaller island east of Cephalonia, which has innumerable sheltered bays in which …
We managed to depart Leros on the 14th May. It took over a week to purchase a new hot water tank and wait for the boatyard technicians to have a time slot to install it. We had been hanging around with very little else to do and, on running through our pre-departure checks, found that …
I returned from a week in London visiting family to entertain my girlfriends from college days. Sally, Helen, Rigby, Sarah and I all met in Autumn 1983 and have had so many good times together over the almost 40 years we have been friends. Now we have more space in the chalet it was a …
Still waiting for snow!!! Nonetheless we’re having a lovely time in the mountains and enjoying lots of sunshine. Jonny, Beth, Rosie and Tilda arrived for a long weekend and we headed up to Ste Foy where they have skied before and absolutely loved. Luckily the UK half term was over and the resort was fairly …
Since the last blog we have been busy! We had a few days with no-one staying and fabulous snow so made the most of it skiing the off-piste in Villaroger and Ste Foy. In fact we had such a fabulous morning skiing from the Aiguille lift down to Le Monal village that we had to …
We enter October with a definite feel of Autumn with shorter days and soft, low sunlight at dawn and dusk. Despite this the recent southerly winds have brought high humidity and we are back to 30 degrees so, despite the sea feeling a bit chilly, we are still jumping in to cool off! After a …
Can’t quite believe it’s more than a month since the last blog! We flew back to France a month ago to arrange work on our apartment. We attended the annual meeting of the co-propriety which was slightly stressful as it was conducted in French and we became a little lost in a long and animated …
We departed Lefkas heading south down the Lefkas canal looking forward to exploring the Southern Ionian Islands. We sailed here before, many moons ago and before we bought our own boat, when we came on a flotilla holiday to see if we would be compatible as a sailing team! Fortunately we were not put off …