Tag: Greek Islands

  • 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…

  • A Tour of the Eastern Aegean Part 1: Homage to Leros

    A Tour of the Eastern Aegean Part 1: Homage to Leros

    The launch gets easier as the years go by and we get more familiar with the process. Artemis boatyard have always been amazing. Today it’s nice and calm for launch although it’s certainly not always this benevolent. Intention has found her winter home on the Island of Leros for the past 4 years  and coming…

  • 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…