Well we’re back on board. The flight from Gatwick was over an hour leaving due to thunderstorms over Athens, so the plane sat on the tarmac and waited. But at least the Easyjet cabin staff did offer free water, and…

At last time to launch. We were scheduled to be 4th in the queue and launch at about 0900, in the end we were fifth and were motoring away by 0930. Before this however, a final few jobs, top up…

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…

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…

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…

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….

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….

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…