We just completed an overnighter from Roccella Ionica last night. It was a very rough and confusing night -- the wind was trying to come from two different directions making the seas confused and the breeze unsteady. Sometime during the night right after there had been no wind for several hours, the wind piped up at twenty knots from the North. Then, right when we got close to Syracuse, the wind completely died before switching around to the South! But the main thing is is that we made it here (even if we did get everything all salty).

Unfortunately our dinghy motor broke as soon as we wanted to go into town. We need groceries, but we aren't too desperate -- not yet anyway.

Syracuse looks like a nice place. There is the old town -- the largest Greek settlement in Magna Graecia -- built on the point protecting the large bay. There is a large wall built around it. However since the wind is strong and our dinghy motor is broken, I wouldn't know anything about it. :_(