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  • 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…

  • Back in the Dodecanese

    Back in the Dodecanese

    It’s been a while since I wrote a postcard home.  Due to many things including a trip to Spain mid-season to see our family and a few land based visitors and a a whole load of computer issues that I have just sorted out (hopefully!). While there is always a mix of busy times and…

  • Postcards Home: Cyclades part 2 or When Everything Goes Wrong….

    Postcards Home: Cyclades part 2 or When Everything Goes Wrong….

    After a great tour of the North Western Cyclades we jumped from Tinos across to the northern end of Paros to a large bay called Naoussa. We’d been here once before in October in 2022 when we sat on the boat, alone in a howling meltemi for 7 days.  Our boat clocked over 2 nautical…