Category: Life Aboard

  • 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…

  • The Slow Road Home to Intention

    The Slow Road Home to Intention

    It’s taken 7 weeks from leaving our home in Tasmania to launching out boat in Greece. 5 weeks in Thailand where Rick slogged away at learning to wing foil.  It’s hard graft with a lot of time in the water or walking back up the beach dragging a foiling board and managing a wing at…

  • Salty Tales

    Salty Tales

    Actually, before we leave the Eastern Greek islands, I need to tell some stories about 3 of the islands we passed quite quickly through and I barely mentioned last year.  These 3 islands are closely linked through geography and history and a long and noble maritime presence. These islands are Chios, the largest, Oinousses, a…