A brilliant week doing some of the many highlights of the southern Ionian. We started at Preveza, went through the Lefkas Canal to Sivota, then Frikes on Itheka, Kalamos, Kastos, Port Athini on Meganisi and finally Lefkas. We even managed…

We waved our farewells to Fern Wednesday morning, and caught up with a few necessities such as laundry, restocking (for some reason we’re now light on wine!) and taking our winter boat cover round to Waypoint Sails at the Marina…

A couple more nights of relaxation in the relatively safe Vliho Bay, and guess what, its Sunday!, so roast pork at the Vliho Yacht club. The outboard engine has still been running very poorly so a third attempt at cleaning…

The plan now is to meet up with Clive and Pippa in 8 days time in Vasiliki, so we thought we’d go spend the next week going up between Itheka and Kefalonia and back round the top to Lefkada. Between…

We’d intended to anchor in a little bay just to the north of Rat Island, but it was full with 2 yachts so instead moored up stern to with the anchor on the mole on the Island. Apparently the very…

We motored for about a mile against a strong southerly and as we rounded the bottom of Itheka the wind duly dropped and we continued to motor across the channel into Agia Effimia, our first visit to Kefalonia with Jacana….

After a lunch stop in one of the many bays North of Agia Effimia, we motored another mile or so as the wind began to pick up on our bow, so rather than fighting it, we dropped into the next…

We arrived in Fiscardo around lunchtime expecting the place to be heaving but found a spot on the Town Quay wall literally an arms length from restaurant tables on the pavement. It’s a thriving village with ferries and tourist boats…

We left the bustle of Fiscardo and dropped the anchor in Foki Bay to take the tender and a torch across to the caves and tunnels we’d not been able to access by foot 2 days earlier, without walking boots…

Another anchorage, this time with other boats and two long lines ashore, in a large bay just north of Frikes. Nothing too interesting other than in the morning a couple of lads and 5 girls who were camping behind bushes,…