adventures aboard Ciaron

Our Trips around the Ionian sea islands

05 September 2013
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Nydri

05 September 2013
Our first port of call on our Greek adventure was Nydri, from the sea, it looked a bustling vibrant place, people milling around, an abundant choice of restaurants
and eateries to choose and as we tied up against the harbour wall, it became apparent that it was exactly that! Tourist orientated ( but you would expect that),
But what did surprise me, was just how amazingly friendly everybody was. That said, unfortunately, due to our choice of mooring points, it was next to a coast guard restricted area, after only a few minutes of being tied up, a rather tall but young uninformed, and armed man, came over to us, and demanded we move, " this area restricted ", he barked pointing to the almost invisible black and yellow painted markers on the wall, and the big sign that said, " no mooring" ( or words to that effect), John, being an old sea dog just looked at the uniform and grunted something that sounded very much like " f&$@ &&f " to me, but as luck would have it, not to the guy in the uniform and a gun! Anyhow we did politely point out that the sign and the markings, were not in fact directly behind so we were tied
Into a correct mooring. I think he was a little peeved at this, showing it by snapping to remove the Jolly Roger flag flying, to which once again John repeated his request the guy " go forth and multiply ", or at least words to that effect!.

Walk up and down the waterfront, enjoy the restaurants , the various blends of English, Greek and Italian cuisine and a few others I'm sure, Romanian, Turkish etc, the smells eminating along the front were amazing, but look for the alleyways, shortcuts, through to a propper Greek holiday destination high street.

Nic Nac shops, the usual and not so usual gift shops but also just about everything else, several mini supermarkets, bakeries, kebab shops tobbacconist, Car and motorcycle hire and my personal favourite, fishing tackle shops.

Very quickly, tree discovered her favourite, a kebab house that sells " f$$$$$g amazingly good " chocolate ice cream cone ( least that was her first reaction, and, In fact I had to agree, although I had to buy my own to find out for myself! ( Well you know women and chocolate!)).


Vessel Name: Ciaron
Vessel Make/Model: BRAVARIA 37
Hailing Port: VLIKHO
Crew: Philip Gough and Theresa Butler
About: We are a couple from Basingstoke Hants and untill last year had never been aboard a yacht let alone sail one.!!!
Extra: I must add that all this could only be possible because of my very good mate and proud owner of "Ciaron" Mr John Pettit

we the crew

Who: Philip Gough and Theresa Butler
Port: VLIKHO