Cruising again the start of the return

We had a great last night in Levkas Marina there was even a party in our honour, well almost, it was both for the marina leavers and to celebrate the owners of the Porto Cafe having managed it for 5Læs mere
Ionion Marina Yard in Aktio

The boat was lifted yesterday a little late due to a scheduled power out but all chucked by 13:00, nice and close to power and water but sadly the toilet block next to us is out of action as they areLæs mere
Boat maintenance done!

Hurray we have finished the antifouling, and received the completed insurance survey. Survey was great just need to replace one of the rollers on the anchor bow roller, we had noticed but then forgotLæs mere
Greek bureaucracy

Well sadly we are still here in the yard at Preveza waiting to receive the transducer that will fill the 2inch hole we currently have in the bottom of the boat. You really wouldn’t believe what aLæs mere
Cycle to Vonitsa

Nice day today so after John has applied another coat of paint to the inside of the old gas locker than he had cleaned a few days ago, I managed to persuade him that we should go for a bike ride. NotLæs mere
Floating again !!

Well it took a while but we are back on the water. The boat was all ready to go except for the new transducer for the the depth sounder, a week after lifting but it took over 2.5 weeks for theLæs mere
Damp but underway in Meganissi

We got the fuel in Preveza it was 35c a litre cheaper than at Lefkas Marina, then next day after buying some olive oil, olives and honey from the back of a scooter we headed back south to the turningLæs mere
Sivota and Vliho

From Meganissi we headed west then south to Sivota, on south of Lefkada. It was interesting to see it open as when we had visited before in December everything was closed. We met Nick and Gemma andLæs mere
Orthodox Easter in Greece

Just spent a wonderful day with Stephanie K and her family celebrating Easter Sunday in a typically Greek fashion with the whole family and lots of friends at the family villa just up the hill inLæs mere
Easter Sunday early morning parade

As I mentioned the flame of Christ is flown in and after a church service the priests light the congregations candles and the congregation then light everyone else’s candles. Unfortunately it was aLæs mere
Northwards

After the Easter BBQ we, well I had a lovely swim, john lifeguarded then we headed back to spend the night in Vliho where we had a look at all the boats that appeared to have been abandoned then backLæs mere
Lakka north of Paxos

Did a couple of nice walks between Mongonisi and Gaios saw the house John wants to buy and renovate, we then travelled north and went through Gaios harbour and up to Lakka, lots of our Levkas MarinaLæs mere
Next stop Mourtos Islands

While near Igoumenitsa we took the bikes ashore, dodging the cow pats, cows and dogs, and rode into town. It was nice enough but not sure where real people shop, there were loads of tavernas and cafesLæs mere
Benitses on Corfu

We had a lovely Liberation Day evening in Sivota town, the bar we went to gave us free crisps, two coffee shot cocktails and a little toasted sandwich 🥪. The meal was also good and we got to watchLæs mere
Starvos Mount near Benitses

Took a stroll today up to the mountain top well a bit more of a scrabble in places I think we were up at 435m. Saw lots of lovely views, newts, a mini more, 1830s aqueduct, phone box, lots of churchesLæs mere
Corfu town

After a blowy night and with a very damp forecast for the day ahead we headed by bus to Corfu town to be proper tourists for the day see the sights we missed last year. The old fort was impressive,Læs mere
North past Corfu town to Ag Stefanos

We departed Benitses after a lovely if very wet couple of days and motored our way up past Corfu Town and on to Ag Stefanos for coffee/ beer. Very relaxing location with some nice walks aroundLæs mere
Albania - New country for John

We spent yesterday and last night in Sarandë in Albania. For those of you not in the know, if you have a non EU registered boat, we do, and don’t want the authorities to consider that you haveLæs mere
Return to Italy

Bongioro Hello from Italy 🇮🇹 we travelled west from Albania and anchored up just North of Orthoni, the North western most of the Greek islands. Unfortunately on our way to the anchorage JohnLæs mere
Return to Gallipoli (Italy)

The trip from Saint Maria up to Gallipoli wasn’t the smoothest, but I was on the helm for 3 hours and that definitely helped. Unfortunately when I took a break on a smoother patch I noticed wetLæs mere
Taranto

From Gallipoli to Taranto, and this trip surprisingly was actually calmer than forecast making us wish we had headed straight across the Gulf of Taranto instead of into it. Our plans to anchor off SanLæs mere
Alberobello

We got there eventually and I’m glad we made the effort, we bought our online tickets and waited early at the first bus stop only for bus to go sailing past us even though I was waving at him, nextLæs mere
Ciro Marina

After a slow start we are now making swifter progress west. We spent another night in Taranto and used the day to visit Martina Franca photos attached, this is where we changed buses to go toLæs mere
Ciro - La Castella - Rocella Ionica

36nM calm trip yesterday from Ciro, we didn’t end up paying as no one in the office when they said or later that evening or the next morning. We watched the first half of the Champions League finalLæs mere
Scilla

From Rocella Ionica we had a 10 hour trip around the toe of Italy and up towards the Messina straits stopping the night in Reggio Calabria. We started out at 6am so were moored up around 4pm andLæs mere