Wednesday 11th May, Lift in, fridge on, Preveza
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…
Tuesday 10th May 2022, A visit to Agrinio Police Station
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…
Monday 9th May 2022 Still polishing
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…
Wednesday 4th May 2022 On with the jobs
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…
Wednesday 27th April, 2022 Cleopatra’s Marina, its a hard life!
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…
Friday 22nd April 2022 Cleopatra’s Marina
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,…
Tuesday 12th April 2022, Weymouth
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…
Sunday 3rd October to Wednesday 6 October 2021
Fortunately on Sunday there was space for us on Preveza Town Quay as we had a few jobs to do whilst still in the water before lift out at 0830 on Monday. And more fortunately there was no wind when…
Thursday 30th September to Sunday 3rd October 2021, Nidri and Vonitsa.
After 3 nights of eating delicious evening meals in the Taverna Ionian, and with lift out booked for Monday it was time to start heading north again. Not however before a final night in Nidri to share a beer or…
Sunday 26th to Thursday 30th September Velcro Bay and Sivota
David and Yvonne left us in Preveza at 0930, so a chance to drop off the laundry on a side street a few yards from Jacana and collect it cleaner an hour or so later. By 1 o’clock we were…