The weather is getting warmer here this week (high 20’s) and people are preparing to leave. There has been lots of socialising and parties to celebrate before everyone finally departs. However, we are still currently ‘orange’ so there is not anywhere convenient to go without taking covid tests and potential quarantine. We await news of […]
As the weather is generally more unsettled during the winter in the Mediterranean it is not particularly enjoyable sailing, so we intend to spend the next few months in Sicily. It was another sunny day but there was some strong wind and rain forecast in a couple of days so we decided to head to […]
Once the strong winds and swell of the last few days had reduced, (we thought!) the forecast looked favourable to leave mainland Italy and continue our journey on to Sicily. We planned to sail on a southwesterly course across to Siracusa on the east coast of Sicily which is approximately 100 miles, so we set […]
After a restful night in Erikoussa, we had received our negative Covid test results so we slipped our lines and left the harbour at 8am. We could see that there was still quite a bit of swell so raised our sails before leaving the protection of the harbour and headed out to sea. It was […]
We left Paxos and sailed north to Corfu (or Kerkyra in Greek) where we anchored on the south east coast in the small fishing village of Petriti. There is a harbour with colourful fishing boats and a five tavernas on the sea front all specialising in seafood. Being just a small harbour without any nice […]
We left the sheltered water of the Ionian and set off north to the small island of Paxos which is approximately 10 miles south of Corfu. It was a beautiful day, hot, sunny, the sea was flat and there was just a slight breeze, unfortunately this meant that with little wind, we were not sailing […]
Sailing ZigZag 