ocean-pilgrim

Tag: travel

  • Slow Sailing in 2023

    Slow Sailing in 2023

    It’s been a while now since we left Australia for Greece and sailing life and I find it a bit startling that we have not managed to sail very far as yet.  But this (life) journey has always been about control and surrender.  The two sides of the one coin that we cycle between from…

  • 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…