Big day for the girls today, we circumnavigated the island of Symi in 7 hours, 4 swims at 4 stoand a fabulous bbq lunch on the beach - wine was less fabulous. Em and Hazel swam into Seal Cave - Alex the seal was out, swam on Diavates Island, beach and swim on Sesklia Island, another swim St George's Bay as per gulet trip - wild goats were enjoying the chapel greenery. Home for fabulous home cooked dinner at our place, along with a bottle of interesting Greek w...

A glorious day, pleasantly hot. The harbour bustling, some serious boating hardware either sailing or engining in and out, & ferries don't count. For me an early morning trot along the coast road to see where it went. The bitumen became a pebble beach, various people's front yards, a taverna dining area on the beach & after an hour I was in a goat yard on the waterfront. Hmm, mystery solved. Breakfast was ripe peaches, apricots & nectarines - real o...

After the disappearing laundry reappeared Hazel, Em and I headed by ferry to Kos. Much carry on about tickets....a voucher has to be swapped for tickets with a local agent, not the ferry office. Different system in Greece - arrived Kos then goose chase to find the agent to swap a voucher for another voucher to be able to collect tickets from the ferry terminal where we started, for the hydrofoil to Symi. No matter, we would not have got the hot tip on where the ...

Wow, absolutely no ripples in the water this morning, the water the warmest we have had. After the routine morning swims and canoe paddling, I had a trip back to town with Fatih to collect our stamped passports allowing us back to Greece and am sure it was a very sophisticated look reading the English papers in the dinghy on the 20 minute return trip to Tanem - up to date with Lindy Chamberlain, the only Oz news! We headed to a beautiful isolated, nameless bay o...

Another day in Paradise! Today on Kastellorizo Island, Greece, only 2 miles from Turkey. Because we didn't eat at the restaurant outside which we had moored 'Tanema', Captain Genghis had to move the boat while we were ashore having dinner - none to politely told to 'piss off'! So, moored further around the harbour where no restaurant had landing rights. Woke up to a near empty bay around which the town is built and a few of us headed off to explore - up the ste...