It's a Marble World Friday, 15th September 2017 We're seriously into marble. At home it is a very smart, expensive material - here the fishermen's gutting table on the quay is solid marble!We have been on Naxos and Tinos. Naxos we have been to a few years before, but only anchored overnight in a blow on a time-constrained passage to somewhere. Tinos is a first. We hired a car on both islands to explore them in more detail. They are each different in many ways but...

Back to Boats, Goats, Donkeys & Earthquake Aftermath Monday 4th September 2017 We had a good trip back last Tuesday, arriving in our little hotel in Kos town about 10.30pm local time, and popped out for a quick bite and a little recce. On the flight, we sat next to a British hotel owner who described the effects of the July earthquake. Buildings that still stood on the outside (including some hotels) were rubble on the inside. The economic impact for loca...

Meltemi Blues (and Images of Leros) 11th July 2017 It was forecast for the Meltemi to start blowing: we just didn't know how long for. We made our escape from Turkey, foregoing the delights of the islands of Symi, Tilos, or Nisyros, and worked our way west and north, past Kos to Pserimos in one hop. And the next day we headed straight for Leros, to the main port of Lakki, which we knew would be well sheltered and where there are the delights of the local shops an...

Monday, 15th May 2015 Second starts, birthdays and Mermelade We escaped Leros whilst awaiting delivery of the various repair bits and our new cockpit cushions and explored first, a fjord-like inlet (Vathy) on the island of Kalymnos and then on down to a bay in the north of Pserimos, an island close to Kos. Vathy is in a fertile valley on an otherwise barren island, full of oranges, tangerines, lemons and vegetables and is also a haven for kayakers. We left to...

The Good, the Bad and the not-so Ugly Sunday, 7th May 2017The Good - all the designer outfits (aka boat bits) arrived intact and have already been put to good use - the Rocna's stainless steel extension is perfect. The sun is shining, the temperatures are in the mid-20's, Myrica is polished, painted and titivated, and has been put gently into the water by the yard chaps who greeted us like long lost friends. A modest trip of 10nm down to Lakki for dinner with Co...