I’m writing this from our place in France, staring out of the window at pouring rain. The sailing season seems a long way away! We left Sicily for the overnight passage to Sardinia on the 2nd of October. Conditions could not have been more different to the previous long passage from Greece to Italy. This …
It has been a busy, and expensive (!) couple of weeks. With settled weather we left Rocella Ionica heading for the Messina strait. After a night at anchor in a rather dull spot called Bova Marina (which is just a place to anchor with minimal protection from the wind and waves: no marina at all), …
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 …
Our guests arrived! First up were Ros and Godric, joining us in Corfu where we were waiting at Mandraki marina in the grounds of the old fort. We had planned a week’s gentle cruise southwards to finish in Preveza. Sadly, illness forced them to leave early, but we still managed to enjoy a few days …
These past couple of weeks have been a quiet interlude before friends join us, followed by family the next week. So we have been pottering around the harbours and anchorages on Corfu and the mainland, seeking out good spots to return to with our friends when they arrive. We started south of Lefkas, at anchorages …
It has been a busy couple of weeks. Our friend Suzie – who we have known since trainee days in Plymouth – joined us shortly after the last post. We met up in Agios Efimia, a bay on the Eastern coast of Kefalonia, and proceeded to sail our way around the Ionian islands. From Ag. …
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’ve made it around the Peloponnese! Favourable (and strong) winds have blown most days for the past week, so we have taken every opportunity to keep moving, whilst still taking in some of the sights and delights of the region. After Monemvasia, we headed south and spent nights at the tips of each of the …
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 …