4:06 pm or whatever time it is as things keep changing as we journey east.
Buongiorno,
We are 700 miles from Turkey and 2,300 miles from London. That’s not how the crow flies, it’s how we planned our stops along the way.…
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Sicily:Siracusa check-in and lovely afternoon
Pilos, last stop in Greece part 1
Buongiorn,
So far that’s really the only word I know. As far as understanding any Italian thanks to my half-forgotten French or totally forgotten Latin, no help there at all. Not so much English understood or spoken in …
Ios part 3
Same chair, same restaurant, same cup of tea
Yasas
Here’s the final email about Ios and the next to last one about Greece. But that one will have to wait for Sicily unless the weather turns bad and we stay here one more day. …
Ios part 1 Chora Village
Yasas,
We’re at the 4 Seasons Restaurant using their wifi. I’m going to catch up with the Ios emails before we leave tomorrow for Sicily which will take at least 2 nights. We did an overnighter from Ios here and skipped Milos.…
Passage
We will depart in the morning, Monday, for Sarucusa, Italy. It is a 313 NM passage and will take about 54 hours if we can make 6 knots. Our objective is to arrive during daylight hours so as long as we leave here by 7:00 …
Santorini conclusion
Yasas,
We’ve had a lovely day here on Ios and an all too short visit. Dozens of people have arrived on the ferry but most are off to Chora Village at the top of the hill. We like it down below in the quiet harbor. We di…
Final email about Nisyros
Yasas
This is the final email about Nisyros. We’re really enjoying Ios too. I was told today Ios stands for Irish Over Seas as there are lots of Irish here and lots of Irish pubs in town. I took myself for a walk uo up up to …
Nisyros Part 2 Visit to the Volcano
Yasas,
So Santorini won’t be our favorite island; too crowded thanks to the 3 cruise ships in port and day trippers like us. It’s kind of like being in Provincetown in high season. But Randal loved cruising into the caldera…
Nisyros part 1 of 3
Yasas,
It was another long day. Cruising at an average of 5.8 knots, with wind on the nose and choppy seas, the 54 nautical miles from our anchorage in Vathi to Ios Island where Homer is reputed to be buried, took us all day. T…
Underway
We spent two wonderful days in Nisyros, rented a motorbike and rode all around the island. Yesterday we made a very rough passage to Vathi and spent last night in a safe anchorage.
We depart shortly for Ios 58.6 NM away. Today the winds are supposed t…
