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Summer 2020

Medicane

For the past 10 years we have visited the Ionian but we have never experienced such extreme weather. After writing about the idyllic harbour of Fiskardo last week, there was a dramatic change in the weather, a rare hurricane was due to hit the area with the eye of the storm to go over Cephalonia. […]

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Summer 2020

A Deserted Village

We headed south to Fiskardo, one of our favourite places on the island of Cephalonia, apparently the only village on the island that wasn’t destroyed in the 1953 earthquake. A really pretty old fishing harbour with colourful Venetian buildings, now a very busy tourist location. The bay is full of boats and visited daily by […]

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Summer 2020

Hike to the Beach

We returned to Vlikho bay on the island of Lefkas as there was some strong winds forecast and wanted a good protected anchorage to sit out the storm. The winds came early evening with gusts up to 40 knots, luckily our anchor held tight. (In fact, when we left a couple of days later we […]

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Summer 2020

Battery Upgrade

This has been something we’ve planned to do for some time having had ongoing frustrations with our current low capacity lead acid batteries. These are not really suitable for long term living aboard and we have generally had to replace at least one of them every year. At the moment we are reliant on being […]