Continuing on from our 10 days in Ormos Varis - another Australian boat load of friends turned up, Cara from Brisbane. The bay is close to the airport and they have changeovers of friends so a good place to be. It was great to catch up and share notes of good cruising places. After that we went back to Zea Marina to await the arrival of Terry and Liz, friends from Brisbane who are wrapping up 2 months in Europe. good timing as a wild fire broke out just by where...

Leaving Paros we went to Sefnos to overnight and have a quick look around. A very pretty old town climbing up the hill. Had a very nice quiet still night for another meal on the front deck. Korean style BBQ using the lay flat griller. Kythnos was the next stop working our way gradually north west for Athens. I had chosen this from the map as it looked like a nice place to water ski/wake board but it turned out to be chock a block with day tripper and charter boa...

Lyndie (Peter's daughter) and Chris (her partner) arrived in Samos where we were tied up at the Pythagorea Harbour wall. After the usual long trip from Australia they had a few easy days to reset. We then caught a ferry to Kusadasi (Turkiye) for a shopping session (all the knock off brand name shops) and they took a trip to Ephesus to take in the ruins there. There was an earthquake at 7.30 on the first morning that we all felt, 4.5 on the scale!!We couldn't take...

The haul went very well compared to the last one. Firstly we went to the haul out berth at 9.30 and were on the hard by 10.30. Last year they left us waiting at the berth while they all went off to lunch and a whole day got wasted. Then the guys all turned up promptly and worked all day till they finished their particular job. Eventually we were back in the water on time in just over one week as opposed to 4 last year. Admittedly there were a few less jobs this t...

(The blog maps feature didn't recognise some of the little islands so we look like a straight line but in fact went to the following) : Leros: Looking at the weather we booked in to Leros Marina for 4 days, a 4 hour trip from Kos northwards. The marina is great but the town of Lekki is in sad/bad repair. Certainly not the cute well kept little old streets we have become accustomed to. Rather unattractive square buildings with lots of peeling paint and broken pla...