Quiet Ancient Delos and Vibrant Mykonos Mon, 30th May 2016 We had a boisterous sail from Dhenoussa to Mykonos - 7 hours of the crash and bang variety in a lumpy sea. We were glad to anchor in a calm bay, but the thumping muzak coming from the local resort drove us away to the next cove along, where all was peace and quiet. We had spoken to a local skipper who said one is allowed to anchor in the Delos Channel until 8pm, but that it can be tricky in anything but c...

Challenging Start and Big Blue Amorgos Katapola, Amorgos and Dhenoussa, Wednesday 25th May We started with a bang. Having socialised in Lakki and stocked up, we headed for the Cyclades, stopping en-route at Levitha (all goats and barren rock). At first we anchored in the north of Amorgos, managing overnight to sit out an unforecast F6/7 quite happily under the shelter of a little islet. Morning and now gale force 8 winds made our anchor drag, so we upped and off...

Lakki, Leros Sunday 15th May 2016 We arrived on Leros early Tuesday morning on the little 36-seater plane that (due to strong and wrong wind direction) had to land from the land side to the south rather than from seaward. Over the hills to drop steeply down to the miniscule runway, and hard stop before going plop into the sea. Phew! A fire engine races up and down the runway, sirens blaring, before every take-off and landing - a unique form of bird-scaring!You...

Back to small planes, goats and reveille - and home. Sunday, 11th October 2015. Not only did we lunch and swim in beautiful sunshine off Archangelos, but took the opportunity of an afternoon lull in the breeze to drop and remove both the genoa and the mainsail. We were in the company of an Irish boat that was on the hard next to us last winter - they were doing much the same and followed us into Partheni to pick up a boatyard buoy in the evening. They were call...

Old and New - friends and islands Thursday 8th October It turns out our friend Vasilis on Thetis (a physicist with satellites as his speciality) has a dual existence. He lives in Washington DC with his American wife, but also has a house overlooking the sea, complete with vineyard, on Samos island, where summers are spent. He is a founder member of www.cruiserwiki.org for the Med region as well as having his own interesting website www.sy-thetis.org . We first m...