It was only a couple of bays north from our deserted anchorage to motor into the light wind and arrive in this harbour. We anchored stern tied to the north shore of rocks with about 50 other boats. Perhaps 200 more were on other shores or on the quay. This sea village escaped the worst […]

We motored north for the morning, before the wind and waves could set in against us, and found a bay near the top of the island – called wasp bay on Jamie’s notes. The tourist map calls this Dolchida bay, a narrow inlet wide enough for two yachts to swing. Some larger boats were tied […]

We are in what Jamie and his friends called Posh bay! “Aptly named as full of posh restaurants and shops and heaving with day trippers.  It’s very pretty  and we are anchoring for free (as per normal we haven’t yet paid for a mooring in Greece! ) across the bay as we get a good […]

Among the 34 Italian survivors of the massacre on Cephalonia was one who swam the straits, from there to Ithaca. After the Second World War, as a captian,  he would give long toots on the Patras Brindisi ferry, in memory of his 9,000 comrades in the Alpine Brigade. 3000 of them survived the battle of […]

After 10 days of stop-go, wild gas hunt, or turning back, we motored in calm seas round the bottom of Cephalonia, and up to Ithaca. Eight hours of runningthe engine was not what we came all this way to do – but Poseidon has stopped throwing wind and waves at us. Parrot said, “ So do […]

The largest of the Ionians, in western Greece, this island was devastated by an earthquake in 1953. Everything was flattened except one port in the north, Fiskardi.  So it’s not surprising that Argostoli  has a modern, re-built feel to it. Half close your eyes and the town merges into shades of ochre and pale cream, […]