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...

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...