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...

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...