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We’d intended on anchoring in the bay, but this year, the bathing limit buoys seem to be in much deeper water, so we went stern to on the Town Quay, where the young lady that took our money last year…

Time to pass through the Corinth canal, this year from West to East to the the Saronic Gulf.We paid the fee of €174 on line on Sunday with an estimated transit time of 10am so at 0945 on Monday morning…

It was dead calm as we left Galaxidi for the 37 miles to Corinth, with the wind suddenly picking up on the bow for the final 5 miles into the harbour. En route we saw the largest pod of dolphins…

We ended up motoring initially for 10 miles from Trezonia and once the westerly wind picked up we sailed downwind for the final 11 miles round into the beautiful town of Galaxidi. We’d been here last year, anchoring in the…

We went the other way under the Rio-Antirro bridge last year and this year we again had the ‘excitement’ of calling up the bridge on Channel 14, 5 miles out asking permission to go under it and to be asked…

With a brisk north easterly, we left Kalamos and had a brilliant 39 mile sail south, through the passage to the north of Oxias out into the Gulf of Corinth and then east to within about 5 miles of Messalonghi…

No wind again so it was motoring the 17 miles across to Kastos, but at least we got a space on the harbour wall, so this probably being our favourite place in the Ionian, we’re here to stay for a…

This weekend is Easter in Greece together with May day holiday moved to Tuesday, and we didn’t know what to expect with shop and Taverna opening hours. Furthermore, F6 and F7 winds were forecast for Saturday afternoon and night, so…

As usual what little wind we had, was on the bow, so another short passage to Kioni, with the option of going on to Big Vathi if the quay was full. Fortunately it wasn’t, so another perfect stern to mooring,…

We eventually managed to ‘unstick’ ourselves from Tranquility Bay and motored the 8 miles south to Sivota, where as usual we went stern to, with a lazy line to Yanni’s, IonnisTaverna. The payment being to eat in his restaurant. The…