End of a great big Aegean loop Thursday, 30th June 2016 We have been off radar for a bit and are now about 260nm from our last report having closed the loop of our Dodecanese, Cyclades, Crete, Dodecanese circuit. Our timing has (more by luck than judgement?) been good - we got out of Crete before the Northwesterly winds came blasting down. We sailed to little Kasos from the eastern side of Crete, about 35nm away. Here we rafted alongside an impounded sailing...

Putting point on the map. Mapping is a bit skewiff - trying to fix

Minoan Crete and Wild Country Fri 17th June 2016 We have traversed the length of Crete along the north coast, from west to east. Rethymno is another Venetian port with a great fortress on the headland and a harbour surrounded by cafes and shops. We hired yet another car, to drive the Idi Ori mountains and visit Phaestos, a well preserved Minoan site - incredible to think their artwork and building pre-date the classical Greek by a thousand years or so!...

I love Spiros and Greek Dentists Thursday, 9th June 2016 Spiros is the dockmaster in Chania. He is wonderful, quite the nicest and most helpful we have yet met. Young, fit, completely bald, but utterly charming!But first, Kleftiko was fabulous, great stacks of rock amidst turquoise water, great for snorkelling, diving and climbing. Good choice (although a bit rolly overnight) for an early start and passage to Crete. A nice crossing of 70nm and we arrived in Cha...

3S & M Syros, Serifos, Sifnos and Milos Saturday, 4th June 2016 An overnight stop on Syros and stock up, great place, for details see location in blog a couple of years ago. On to Serifos, somehow much better than we were expecting - though not sure what that was we were expecting! A lovely little harbour, €3.5m worth of work going on to make it a more attractive and safe option for visiting boats; new quay, power and water being installed whilst we...