It's been a busy few weeks despite the best efforts of the weather! It has been very windy for a few days at a time then glorious winter sunshine and no wind for a day or so and then…….We rode our bikes to the Temple/Sanctuary of Apollo about 4 klms away for the day. Very impressive ruins, apparently the biggest or best Apollo one in Turkey. it was partly wrecked by a series of earthquakes and a few wars. This is typical of most of the ruins here it...

Here we are in Didim, Turkey. The marina is just 10 years old and has a good reputation for quality work. There are some very big boats here for winter laid up on the hard. Michael and Meiissa left us for a 4 day trip to Istanbul on their way back to Texas. It will be strange not having them around. You need an agent to clear in here and we have Atilla. He was very efficient and saved us from what I'm sure would have been an unnerving situation. He has also go...

Thanks to Schengen (visa for 90 days in every 180) we have abandoned our Greek Island cruising in favour of getting as close to Turkey as possible where there is a checking out office from Greece. That turned out to be the Island of Kos. We are in a fairly new marina just a quick bike ride or walk from the old harbour and town. It was Halloween on the way across - we had some silly hats and masks. It was interesting coming in - Greek patrol vessels on one side an...

It was just as well that we liked Pylos - we ended up just over a week here waiting for weather. This is a changeable time of year with suitable longer distance travel windows every 5 to 7 days it seems. Where we anchored was a way off from the town but the new bigger tender handled it really well even it slightly choppy water. It was Greek Independence Day on the 28th and we ordered a lamb on the spit at Taverna Koukos. None of us quite realised that we were get...

We messed around in the Malfatano area for a few days waiting for weather. It was fun trying the tender out as a ski boat - it went really well and Peter managed to get up after 40 plus years since his last efforts! The trip to Marsala, Sicily, was a great overnight of calm seas and little or no wind (hello motor boat not sailing boat) and we arrived to a warm welcome from the marina there. After we had settled the boat down it was mid afternoon and we decided t...