The Sailing Holiday continues

Over a week has passed since we started on this yacht trip and I would have to say at this stage this is one of the best holidays I have ever had. We have had beautiful weather and been to beautiful places. We continue to sail (or motor depending on the wind) to a new destination very day, sometimes stopping on the way for lunch and a swim. Every town is different in its own unique way. At present we are on Ithic and the two previous ports have been on Kefalonia. For those of you who have read the book or seen the movie, this is the setting for Captain Corelli's Mandolin. My book club read it last year but I felt a re-.read would be good so have bought it on my Kindle.

One day we moored in an inlet on the island of Skorpidi which is the private island of the Onassis family. Beautiful waters to swim in with a green clad landscape to look at. The whole island has been planted in a park like fashion. At Fiscardo we were moored so close to the water front restaurants we could have been served a meal on the deck of the yacht.

The one down side of the trip is that there are no holding tanks on our yacht for 'black water waste' so we are very aware of flushing the toilet while in port. Also another reason for no swimming near moored yachts in the harbour or marina! Of course every restaurant and cafe has toilets so each morning first thing requires a trip to the first cafe to open for the day, for a coffee! As nearly all the businesses also have free Internet access this is a time when emails and the likes are caught up on.

We still have five more days before arriving at the port of Levkos where we will leave our yacht Sirius and our friends, and catch a bus back to Athens where we will continue with the next stage of our trip.



If you are interested in plotting our trip these are the places we have been so far:

Kerkira, on Corfu; Mourtos on the mainland near Sivota; Paxi and Antipaxos for two nights at Gios and Lakka; Preveza on the mainland; Nydri on Lefkado; Vasiliki on Lefkado; Fiskardo and Agia Efimia; Vathi on Ithaki.

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