Revisiting favourites

Before heading to the marina to sort, gather, dispose and repack everything for the trip home, we walked through the Preveza marina to check if acquaintances were there (no, gone sailing) then along the seafront. We stopped at the beach across the channel from where Sea la Vie had resided and had a "curative" swim (there is a sulphur spring) then to "our" marina. I wasn't sure if Sea la Vie would still be there and I wasn't sure how I'd feel if she was! It turns out she was on her next voyage without us 😪. We hauled the bags out of storage and proceeded to lay everything out to see what was coming home, being donated or going in the garbage. A sailor came by asking if this was a boot sale! We ended up only donating a couple of items and the rest we repacked and managed to fit everything in the car! We said goodbye and drove to Lefkada where we'd sailed last Fall. Stopped and had another swim then checked into our lovely hotel atop a hill overlooking the sea. Swam in the pool then into Nydri town for a lovely seaside dinner.
I woke up early the next morning and watched the sunrise, the birds, the early sailors setting off and marveled at the beauty.
We had talked about driving north to visit the 6 monasteries on top of cliffs but I'd had enough of mountain roads, monasteries and long drives, plus it was hot and I wanted to swim! So we took the ferry to Meganisi Is. where we'd found our private cove to anchor in last Fall and walked to the cove from the ferry. We stayed for a couple of hours and were joined by a 2 boats, one of which was a power yacht that flew a Canadian flag! Watched as the crew set out kayaks etc. and 3 women went off paddling while 2 men swam. I have no idea who they were and didn't get a chance to say, "Hey, we're Canadian too, eh!"
Afterwards, we drove into Lefkas to spend the night; it was a mistake as it was not as nice as our hilltop hotel, and noisy. That's the life of the spontaneous traveler...you take the bad and the good and hope there's more of the latter, which there has been!Leggi altro