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...

Goats in Boats and Harvest Moons, Wednesday 30th September It was very nice to catch up with Silent Wings for a meal and next day for tea and cake. We have been crossing paths regularly since first meeting in Gibraltar and seem to be able to pick up where we left off. The sun is back. We were sort of heading in similar directions, but plans change - as they do. We wanted to go to the tiny island of Levitha (S. Cyclades borders) and then on to Amorgos, both of ...

Lightning in Leros, Tuesday 22nd September We monitor the forecasts, as sailors do, in our bid to head south. They have been consistent: the GRIBS, Greek Meteo, Poseidon, Hellenic, etc: they have also been consistent rubbish lately. We had been expecting a nice steady NW3/4 poss gusts of 5 for days for the passage from Chios to Samos. As with our trip to Chios, we started with little wind from the east. It built to a steady F6/7 later during the day, from the ...

Leaving Lesbos 12th September It's been a lovely few days around the bays and coves of southern Lesbos - back to clear water, swimming and exploring. You do see some strange sights in unexpected places - looking up the hill in an isolated cove, we spied this WWII tank, clearly visible to us, but camouflaged from the road - see pic! We came to Plomarion, a 19th C town with cobbled steep streets and Turkish-style houses with wooden balconies. The smell of pine and...