Sailing Again!

We have been in the Ionian Sea now for a month and enjoyed some lovely sailing and some motoring. Met up with friends old and new and helped celebrate a 60th birthday a good day!!

 I have just up loaded this photo and it is said that the Cornith Canal has a slope and you feel that you are motoring  up hill ! it does look like it and that the Gulf of Corinth should empty out into the Aegean Sea.

 This is looking backwards! that is down hill.

    The weather has been good to us a couple of thunder storms but lucky for us not over head. This year the flies and mosquitoes have been bad early June but it seems to have improved and I have put that down to our new guest's during the day we have swallows on the guard rails with their young having flying lessons, they are very noisy in the morning so no lie ins.

And there were as many on the warps and other side of the boat It just means cleaning bird pooh up but not too much. We have been aware of the birds in previous years but not as many as this year.

        We have sailed up the Levkas Canal  and watched a lot of boats going the other way so thought maybe north Ionian was less crowded! Not so we sailed up to Paxos and it was the 3rd bay we found a spot in a bay north of the island called Lakka us and about 100 other boats were in there we stayed 2 nights and it did empty the next day.

   Holidays in Greece are quiet this year? due to publicity about the economic situation maybe, but here it is fine there are lots for taverna open and ready for business the cash points have money in them it is mostly cash but now some places are excepting debit cards!!!

    We are just off mainland Greece among Nisis Sivota and Mourtos for a few days ( Sailing holidays .com have 2 flotillas here tonight.

   39 deg24'N 20 deg13'E

       Mandy ,Ray and Josephine

Farewell to the Aegean Sea !

7th June 2015

       Well since we last blogged we have left the Aegean for the time being we wanted to cruise and not spend weeks hiding from the wind. We have not been alone in this as we have met several other boats making the same trip for the same reason.

      So we made our way east wards from Naxos 2 long days sailing with a Danish boat called Lucy.

Above is  Lucy her owner's Borge and Christine we making the same trip so we sailed to Poros together and then parted company but hope to meet up later in the year.

   We then spent a week sailing towards the Canal visiting favourite paces again and some new!

On the south of the Island Aigina we went into a peaceful anchourage and as it was very deep our 1st this year of taking a line ashore onto a rock all went well until I jumped in with sun glasses still on my nose!!

We then moved onto Epiavros and took the inland trip to the best Greek Theatre see above it is still used today seat's 14,000 people but not very comfortable stone!  The acoustics are so good that you can hear a coin drop in  the middle whilst at the top or anywhere in the theatre.

   

Onwards to the Corinth Canal and on 27th May we went through the canal alone . Into the Gulf of Corinth.

  We are in the Ionian now and enjoying some good sailing!!

           Mandy and Ray