We finally got away on Friday morning. There were of course a few last minute things but it all got done. We said a sad goodbye to Ken who has had his boat on the hard near us for all these weeks and came for coffee each day. Bruce, an Aussie we met in Rhodes, had just arrived to be hauled so maybe they can cheer each other up. We only went a short way around to Kazikli, Ali Dave Bay to try things out and had no problems with generator, water maker or air con. T...

Christmas Day was a good one for us and I hope for you all too. The Didim Yacht Club put on a traditional English style buffet (Covid, what Covid?) and we had a table of 16, mostly yachties but some locals too. Emma and Don gave us a beautiful painting of Entre Nous that they had done from a photo they took when we were all in Iassos. Were going to put it up with the one Hew gave us of Chat Eau Bleu from a magazine article that he wrote after our Madagascar "even...