Right, now where was I on the relaxing, fun, cruising life we are supposed to be having…? Oh, that's right, on the hard in a yard. So the dusty hot, frustrating part continues. We've now got both propellers shafts off because of squealing incorrect (?) gaskets and a myriad of other small jobs and some larger ones partly underway. I now can speak "yard-speak": "I'll be there at 3 o'clock" means "I'll be there at 11 o' clock in two...

Everything is going quite slowly at the yard for us. We were told last week that this week was going to be the week when everything happened - so far NOT. It's only Tuesday afternoon so I suppose anything could happen yet. In fairness everyone has been very busy getting lots of the big boats in the water for the season. Of course all the owners want them in NOW. Peter is having a "man shed" made in the front starboard locker. Lots of shelves for plast...

We finished up in Samos and are now back in Didm, hauled out and on the hard. It was nice getting back to see all the sailing people in Didim. We had a last big BBQ with about 30 people. Most are heading off on their summer sailing in the next few days. We are hoping to lots of catch ups in southern Turquie over the rest of the year. Our hotel we have booked for the next 3 weeks is about 3k away and we ride the bikes to and fro each day. Our room is basic but b...

(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...

Heading back to Kos we stopped off at Chalki to sit out a bit of wind. We found a fairly sheltered spot but still had 32 knot bullets for two days. However we still managed to get ashore for a lunch and look around. It's a very small town with mostly walking access only alley ways. Pretty as a picture. We saw the tiniest police car ever but we could see why with the size of the roads. Once the weather improved we headed off for Kos again but ended up in Tilos for...