Sunday, August 19, 2012

bye bye Ιόνια Νησιά

the last two weeks were full of swimming in crystal clear water, eating yummy food (especially the home cooked one....THANKS Terry and Gisi!!!!), lying in the sun, unfortunately motoring around as there was absolutely no wind, having fun with the crew and lazing about.

we tripped from lefkas to paxos and spent 4 nights in several anchorages and snorcheld through a cave on the backside of paxos, stopped for a swim in antipaxos, went down to menganissi, further on to fiskardo on kephalonia (one of my favourit spots), after to the south of lefkas - then porto spiglia on meganissi again (celebrating Sarah´s 18th b'day with cheesecake and baloons) and back to lefkas town.

all in all the places we stayed at where wonderful...i also learned though, that italian boat owners can be rather rough and unfriendly if things don´t go their way, and that greek folk music can seriously stuff a good night´s sleep!
the ionian islands are well worth a visit! ( but in our personal ranking, the turkish coast is still #1...let´s see how long this will stay valid for ;)

but every holiday has come to an end at some point...our crew from altenmarkt went back home and italy is calling us.
we plan to leave lefkas town today at 4pm hoping to arrive in messina on sicily around midday on wednesday. 
if evereything goes well, we will do our first 2days/2nights turn ...pretty exiting i tell you!
the wind forecast is in our favour, maloo is clean and ready....off we go!

gaios on paxos

fiskardo, kephalonia

three mermaids

look from spartakhori down to porto spiglia

parade in lefkas town

where is waldo?

3 comments:

  1. Poseidon, Aiolos, St. Elmo stehen euch bei und:
    Rasmus, altes Rübenschwein, lass immer faire Winde sein!

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  2. Hi Karlin & Mark
    You are sailing quite fast, 6 to 8 knots!
    We hope, you hade a peaceful night!
    Keep going and wish you another quiet night!
    Denken viel an Euch und seits fest umarmt!
    Astrid und Papi

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  3. Hi Guys,
    We have been following your blog with great interest as we are going to do a very similar trip starting early next year, where we will making our way back to Coffs Harbour, Australia. We have a Bavaria 44 in Kusadasi and we were wondering if we could ask a few questions like were you bought your Webber bbq as we would love to find one over there.
    My email is northbeach29@gmail.com or you can also find us on sailblogs, our boat name is Pannikin.
    Keep the blogs coming they are great.
    Hope to talk soon.

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