Jacana

One thing we’re discovering is that the gulf between the first and second finger, and the gulf up towards Thessaloniki both lack good protective anchorages and reasonably well maintained and managed harbours. The exceptions being 2 or 3 VERY expensive…

A 40 mile leg to the north today, to the middle of the 3 fingers that hang down from the north Greece coast. Typically the wind for such a passage would be on the nose. Today however there was no…

We’d actually been here on a flotilla holiday in about 2010, and the only change over the years is that the island of Kira Panagia is now in the Alonnisos National Park, and consequently now costs €35 per night plus…

Just 1 night at anchor off Limnonari Beach before heading across, with a good sail on Friday to the sheltered bay at Milia on the south coast of Alonnisos. Here anchoring is forbidden, so we picked up the last of…

Back to the pontoon at Skiathos town for a couple of nights to restock and wait for the Tuesday’s arrival of Fern and Stew. The airport is not far away so we walked there and walked back to Jacana with…

A one night exploratory stop in preparation for next week, with a sail (motor actually) past Agios Ioannis Church, made famous in the Mamma Mia movie. Despite Monday being a public holiday in Greece, we managed to get a breakfast…

A few days (4 nights) in the beautiful town of Skopolos. We’d actually visited a week earlier by bus from Loutraki, but even so, it was well worth the additional days exploring it’s narrow streets, bars and tavernas. We also…

So an early (for us) departure at 0930, and a motor literally round the corner to anchor off Glyfa Beach for a couple of hours, where Ann went for her first, and still very cold dip of the year. Then…

Another one night stop to the small and picturesque harbour of Steni Vala, just a few miles north west of Patitiri. Unfortunately, the harbour has large rocks in places against the wall but below the surface so we ended up…

Just a 1 night reconnaissance visit (discovered a fishing shop that Stew might be interested in) and stern to onto quay. Patitiri is fairly picturesque, although being the ferry port for Allonissos, it’s quite busy, and in fact one of…