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