Month: May 2025

With strong north westerlies forecast on Sunday we needed shelter in Skiathos harbour, the only option available being a few, stern to slots, with anchor (no lazy lines) on the north side of the floating pontoon, not ideal given the…

Just one night at a very peaceful anchorage, and a run ashore to walk to the small Venetian tower overlooking the bay and a drink in the only open Taverna, of about 10 in the village. We wonder when the…

Well we’d only intended staying in Volos for a couple of nights, but given how nice Volos is, we ended up staying 5 nights, and it’s free! The harbour wall, literally a minute from the city is run by the…

We’d planned on going north across the Channel and visit the small town of Agia Kyriaki, however as is typical the cross wind as we reversed in to pick up a mooring line resulted in us nearly ending sideways on,…

Just 7 miles of motoring across from the mainland back to Evia, this time the small village of Oreoi. Our first, and successful stern to mooring of the year onto the sheltered harbour wall. Not a great deal here, other…

Well we did manage a slow sail for a couple of hours until the wind died completely, so we motored round the north west corner of Evia to anchor in the very sheltered Vathykelos Bay for a couple of nights….

Another still and cold day, so again we motored along the Evia coast, this time to the town of Loutra Edipsos. We managed to get the last space at the entrance of the harbour, surrounded by very large fishing boats….

Absolutely no wind when we woke from our restful sleep in the bay round the corner from the bridge (the bay probably does have a name) so we motored the 22 miles to Limni (meaning lake) . It’s still very…

We motored the 12 miles from Eritrea, under a very large suspension bridge to a large enclosed lagoon with the Chalkida bridge at the northern end. The procedure is to either anchor near the bridge or tie up on the…

Our plan is to go North, ultimately towards Thessaloniki for summer lift out and then in September on to Leros for over wintering. So we need to navigate the Chalkida bridge, which joins Evia with the mainland. Despite being the…