Category: Inspiration

  • Sailing in the Greek Islands. Reflections on 2024

    Sailing in the Greek Islands. Reflections on 2024

    Here we are well beyond end of the sailing season and feeling like life on water is another half remembered dream.  Those of us who don’t live aboard full time have been in the process of packing up their boats and have headed home or off on other adventures. The full time live aboards have…

  • Postcard Home: Hydra

    Postcard Home: Hydra

    Like a bird on a wire… Anyone else love that song by Leonard Cohen?  Turns out that he wrote it here on the beautiful island of Hydra.  This long, skinny, jagged strip of an island is just a few miles off the Greek mainland and sits strategically between the Argolic and Saronic gulfs. I can…

  • Postcards Home: Old Epidavros

    Postcards Home: Old Epidavros

    I’m starting a shorter series here where I highlight places to showcase what we have loved about them. Last year we visited the town of Old Epidavros a few times and took a few short visits ashore.  It’s a lovely town full of waterfront taverna’s, charming traditional bakeries, cats (of course) and a beautiful church…