The Ionian

Food

We left "stinky jellyfish island" we named for the sulphur health baths and Kate's jellyfish sting the next morning and headed for Isola Salina, another of the Aeolian Islands, which promised no sulphur and being more open hopefully less jellyfish. After Sarah had carefully inspected the water by snorkel [...]

Luckily the superyacht blocking our departure in Gaios left around 10am and we headed off to the mainland to Preveza to collect Cecilia, Rebecca’s friend since school days, when we called her our fourth daughter as she liked to party in town and her family lived in Waikenae. Preveza was much more [...]

After the mornings bureaucracy and with Greek sim cards and dongles ( more queuing and form filling) we head off at last a few miles back to Ayios Stefano. It was around 5pm then and the anchorage was crowded. After much posturing by chaps on other boats wherever we tried to anchor we left and anchored [...]

The next day I had to clear the boat into Greece. The pilot book gave a list of documents to take along and warned to also take as much patience as we could muster.