Well we’re getting closer to flying out, despite Easyjet cancelling our 6th April and 21st April flights for reasons only known to themselves and hopefully it will be third time lucky on 22nd April. Our single bag is packed mainly…

Well we made it, summer has begun! A good relaxing start following an overnight at the Gatwick Premier Inn and a lunchtime flight. As expected, Easyjet are unable to run to time so we arrived in Aktion about 90mins late,…

We survived the Greek Easter break as fortunately the on site taverna stayed open for the duration as did the little shop for all but one of the Easter days. It therefore gave us the opportunity to start the many…

As I sit on board, looking across a forest of masts, I’ve noticed a small bird going in and out of the top of a neighbouring mast, I just hope we’ve not got a nest up ours! . So it’s…

The only thing left to do is polishing, more polishing and antifouling. So a couple of days cutting back the hull and polishing has brought the hull to a shine not seen since we bought Jacana. Meanwhile Ann has been…

Not knowing what the traffic would be like we opted for an early 7am start to drive the 95km to Agrinio for our 10am appointment with the alien police for the first part of our residency process. So we started…

This is the day we’ve been waiting for, lift in at 1300. So a chance to get everything ready, water topped up, fenders out, lines attached, tender lifted onto gantry, saloon tidied with tools put away, finally ship shape! Also…

After a final top up of provisions, which included a couple of striped Sea Bream, plus 3 unknown fish steaks that the fish monger threw in for free we were off! Once out of the Preveza channel we had an…

With mill pond conditions we motored the dozen or so miles to Kalamos. Just round the top of the island we were entertained by 3 dolphins playing round the bow for a quarter of an hour. Then stern to with…

We woke up in Kalamos to another totally windless day. We raised the chain and as I thought, I had laid our anchor chain across our neighbours boat, so up came his anchor chain hooked over our anchor. This was…