Goodbye Greece, Hello Turkey Friday 6th June 2014 We managed to get ourselves tied alongside the quay for the day on Thursday and went exploring. There was a great little museum in Vathi that had a good many statues and artefacts (pots, jewelery, gryphons, etc) from the temple to Hera on the south side of the island. Such is the quality of some of the finds, that many of them are in more distant (and more prestigious?) museums such as Athens and the Louvre in Par...

Anyone for Pythagoras? Tuesday, 3rd June 2014 We liked Leros, and have in fact booked Myrica in for next winter at the boatyard in the North. Nothing but good views and we can walk to the miniscule airport to catch the tiny plane (technical term, I know a lot about planes) to Athens for convenient connection to home in October.We were keen to explore some of the smaller islands north of there, an archipelago that has become a Wildlife Refuge Area. We went first ...

Thursday, 29th May 2014 Top of Leros We did most of the 38nm to Kalymnos using the cruising chute - a lovely sail across. We stayed in a couple of places on Kalymnos, meeting up with Colin and Shirley, our friends with the Malo 37 Silent Wings. First to a little bay called Khikladia that boasted no more than a little beach, a few cafes and tavernas, mobile bread vans and fruit & veg vans, and a rather magnificent dive museum. This was created by a local div...

Kalimnos

Saturday, 24th May If it's Saturday it must be Astypalaia, just out of the Cyclades and the start of this end of the Dodecanese. We stopped en route at a little island called Anafi - and stayed 2 nights to see out some weather (another bout of F7/8 at anchor). They say in this part of the Aegean the so-called sheltered (lee) side of an island is not necessarily the easiest. They have such steep hills that in strong conditions the winds roll up and over the island...