Category: Life Aboard

  • Making Our Way South

    Making Our Way South

    From the moment I had heard about Khalkidhiki I had wanted to go there.  Three fingers of land hanging down from the mainland of Greece into the northern Aegean Sea, the third of them being a peninsula of monasteries and holy to all eastern orthodox Christians.  At its isolated and somewhat desolate end sits Mt…

  • The Northern Aegean by Sail

    The Northern Aegean by Sail

    From the day we went back into the water on the northern end of Leros on July 4th we headed north and travelled as far north as we could go this season.  Next stop after the island of Thasos is the Greek Mainland.  We had planned to visit Kavala, a town on the mainland but…

  • It’s All Greek To Me

    It’s All Greek To Me

    It’s always been a love affair between Greece and me. It has been since my arrival in Athens on my 21st birthday after a horror show debacle in Bangladesh. We had been offloaded from a budget airline flight in Dhaka and told we may get another in weeks, if lucky.  At that point we were…