Wednesday, 11th July 2018 Goodbye Turkey (late) / Hello Greece (never left) We had one further week in Turkey. The storm didn't materialise and we took a Dolmus (little local bus about the size of a small van) into Marmaris town for a look around the castle and bazaar area. We were glad to be tucked up where we were as although it wasn't stormy, there was sufficient wind to kick up lumpy waves in Marmaris bay itself. From here we headed steadily west and north ...

Thursday, 17th May 2018 Birthdays and Battleships Symi: We sailed up to the little harbour just around the corner from Symi port, first at anchor, then on the little quay. We had to move off the little quay and back out to anchor on Richard's birthday because apparently a "tanker" was due in. Fine. It turned out this tanker was not delivering goods, but loading what looked suspiciously like crates of arms and ammunition by the army. Where this was headed, ...

Saturday, 12th May 2018 In Search of Cake It was a textbook launch a week ago Wednesday, just before noon, allowing us time to go all of 1nm across to Archangelos (a protected little archipelago). We dropped anchor for a couple of hours to have our first swim of the season (water clear and cool 22.5deg) and lunch before heading the 10nm down to Lakki the main port, for a stock-up, a few jobs and catch up with old friends. Dinner with Colin & Shirley of Silent...

Sunday, 29th April 2018 A different, somewhat anxious start We are back in the land of blue skies and sunshine, although the path has not been as smooth as in previous years. First, we had booked an early flight from Heathrow enabling us to catch the mid-afternoon flight to Leros and do the journey in one hit with no sleepless night flying. Hurray, until Olympic decide to bump the afternoon flight and put us on an earlier flight that just happened to take off fr...

Race of Ancients and Missing Reveille 28th September 2017 It's the last couple of weeks of our summer cruise. It feels very early to be finishing, but we have a VERY IMPORTANT wedding to go to on 7th October. We had a very good, fast sail from Mykonos for about 30nm until we hit the end of the cigar-shaped island of Ikaria. Now Ikaria is well known for being extremely windy, the katabatic winds howl up and over the steep interior of the island to flatten you the...