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Heading for the Sporades islands from the Corinth Canal, we made a couple of short stops. We enjoyed being anchored in the bay under Cape Sounion for a couple of nights. It is a beautiful place, with an ancient temple to Poseidon on the top of the cape. Temple raiders We met up with Stella […]

We have gone through the Corinth Canal; and are now sailing the Aegean! Going through the canal was very exciting. It is a very impressive structure, with high walls on either side and a couple of bridges going over it. Some facts Wikipedia says about the canal: “The Corinth Canal is a canal that connects […]

Our journey towards Corinth continues. We stayed in the bay just outside Galaxidi for a couple of days to relax and celebrate my birthday! Birthday celebrations I always miss my family and friends on special occasions, but I have to admit that this year I had so much fun on my birthday it made up […]

We are heading east through the Gulf of Patras and then the Gulf of Corinth, to cross from the Ionian Sea to the Aegean Sea by way of the Corinth Canal. Messalongion We stayed in Messalongion for one night, “famous” because Lord Byron died there. It’s a funny little place at the end of a […]

Visiting another beautiful island We arrived in Ithaca, famed home of Odysseus, two days before Beau’s sixth birthday. The grammar school geek in me was quite excited about being on the island that Homer’s hero was from (although there are convincing theories supporting that Odysseus was not from present-day Ithaca, but one of the neighbouring […]

Things the kids were into in May 2017 Swimming. They are in the water all day! Lego – especially Beau Home-made play dough. We don’t really like having play dough around as it gets into everything and we worry about it blocking the bilge… which would prevent water from being pumped out of the boat. […]

We are now in Vlikho bay on Lefkada (I thought it was called Lefkas – maybe that’s a Dutch thing). The bay is very large but calm, with lots of anchored boats quietly bobbing along. More Friends’ Reunions The minute we arrived we started looking around for the blue hull of our friend Peter’s boat. […]

Our dinghy was slowly turning into a submarine… It clearly leaked. It also looked battered, lacked oarlocks, missed lines along the handles, and had no bench. Max spent a couple hours on it yesterday and it has made such a difference! It looks great now and most importantly, it looks like it will stay dry! […]

Time to think I stopped working to go on this adventure almost 18 months ago now and I think I am finally finding my role, coming to terms with it, whatever you want to call it. This past year or so, I really struggled with not having a job title, a kind of status symbol […]

Friends’ reunion We met up with our friends Dave and Shirley to hang out in Fiskardo together for a couple of days. It is great seeing them again after having all wintered in Sicily. We were also moored in the same marina in Spain, so Greece is the third country we met in! Pancake Breakfast Max cooked […]

After our long journey, we were happy to tie Spacegrazer up to the town quay at Argostoli. Fast Friends We headed straight for the café opposite us (what luck!) for a beer, and found out that the guy who runs the place has a 5-year old son who speaks English (more luck!). Our kids became instant friends […]

We are on the ‘road’ again! We left our winter berth at Marina di Ragusa in Sicily and headed for Argostoli on Cephalonia in Greece. A trip of just under 300 miles straight across (so no land along the way to stop)  and we made good time, getting there in 48 hours. Long, overnight passages always make […]

How do you summarise a whole winter of living aboard in Marina di Ragusa? I don’t think I can, so instead I will share some snippets from our life over the past months… We caught up with our friends Ned and Barbara. We made new friends! We did a lot of walking and biking along […]

We are in Italy! We had a beautiful night sail from Mahon to Sardinia in the full moon – with dolphins jumping on our wake… magic! And a great way to erase the memory of the horrible crossing we had from Mallorca to Menorca. We spent a couple days in Villasimius on Sardinia. It was […]

Mahon, allegedly the birthplace of Mayonnaise. We got here last night just before sundown. We originally planned to go to a Cala on the south coast of Menorca, but when we got there the anchorage was so poor due to the prevailing wind that we carried on an extra 20M to Mahon. The anchorage here […]

Are we there yet? The settling in period is still settling in. Okay, we were in the marina for a long while getting the boat ready. So that was a settling in of itself. Now at anchor it seems the days once again have their own rhythm. Boat time has taken on a new meaning. […]

We’ve been having a blast, enjoying the anchorage. We’re anchored in 3m of water. Windless mornings, staring through the mirrored water, I get the feeling we are parked in a grass field. We all love swimming off the boat. The kids have become water rats in the last months, ever wanting to push the boundaries […]

The trip up to Pollensa was stunning. Again no wind, but we weren’t complaining, let us get right up close to the cliffs along the north west coast of Mallorca and drop our jaws at the view. Drop a fishing line overboard and managed to catch a speedboat that cut across our wake. They stopped […]