Thursday 6th and Friday 7th August, Le Castella, to Crotone to Santa Maria di Leuca

On Thursday, we motored round the headland to the town of Crotone, mooring up at the Yacht Krotone Club. Arriving mid afternoon we went for a walk, to encounter litter, broken glass and rubbish strewn streets, with weeds growing from the gutters. Maybe we were just unlucky in where we walked. We also paid €8 for 10 small prawns!
Anyway, up early at 0500 for the 72mile crossing of Italy’s ‘instep’. We managed to sail about half of it before a thunderstorm and sudden strong head winds caused us to revert to diesel power, but at least this time we saw it coming! And into Santa Maria di Leuca for a couple of days.