Strong winds are forecast for Thursday so we’ve decided to head for Messolonghi a day earlier than necessary, but with 3-4kt winds when we raised the anchor, it was a gentle 5kt motor for the 15 miles to the ‘sheltered’…

Again no wind when we lifted the anchor for the 25 mile motor (again another day with the sails furled away) to Messolonghi. Very uneventful at about 1800 rpm giving us just over 6kt over the ground. We were overtaken…

Today was the reason we’re stopped in Messolonghi. So up early to catch the 0830 bus to Agrinio. All went well, and we arrived in Agrinio coach station 40 mins later, with time for a coffee. And because we got…

We decided to stay in Messolonghi for a fourth day and get the bikes out. We’d seen on Google a circular route that went round some of the lagoons and salt pans to the south east of Messolonghi. We soon…

Being in Messolonghi, it’s a shortish? passage to Ithaka, although with virtually no wind it turned out to be a 30 mile slog on the engine for 90% of the way. We headed into Sarakiniko bay on Itheka and dropped…

If we have any regular viewers, you will have noticed that this site is inaccessible sometimes. It’s caused by our broadband connection at home dropping out. It’s apparently being investigated, but I have my doubts!

A short run of just 6 miles, round the corner to (Big) Vathi and mooring up on the western Town Quay with the usual stern lines and anchor at a reasonable charge of €10 per night or €15 for 2….

On Thursday we left Vathi and motored (yet again) the short hop to the beautiful village of Kioni, and arriving late morning managed to get a place on the sheltered harbour wall. In fact when we arrived there about half…

Despite Kioni being idyllic, we decided to move on, not far though to the sheltered Mavrounas Bay round the northern corner we had walked to a couple of days earlier. In getting there however, and with a bit of breeze…

Frikes has a bit of a reputation with westerly afternoon and evening winds blasting down from the west and a significant swell at times from passing fast ferries running between mainland Greece and Italy. We were therefore relieved when we…