Just after the sun rose up through the clouds, we motored out of the harbour at Erikoussa leaving Greece behind. Our course was set to travel 175nm southwest towards the toe of Italy, a route that we have followed several times and we hoped to arrive before the sun set the following day. There was […]
Having spent a lot of time visiting the Ionion islands over the past 15 years, it all looks very familiar to us. With the exception of one bay, we have previously explored all of the places we visit this week. After a short rest in Mitika we tested the engine again and everything still appeared […]
With a cyclone approaching bringing strong winds, thunderstorms, big waves and swell, we considered our options of where to go to escape the worst of it. Our plan had been to continue southwest and visit the many beautiful bays around the Peloponnese as we have not previously explored this area. We would probably be ok […]
After a night of rolling around in the swell, we weighed anchor at Komi as the sun rose, there was a light northerly wind so we sailed slowly out of the bay and set our course to travel 57 nm southwest towards Mykonos. It wasn’t long before dolphins came to entertain us, there was some […]
It was finally time for us to leave Turkey, we have had a great time visiting some lovely bays and many historical sites. ZigZag was waiting for us in Çeşme on return from our long road trip and we prepared to leave the marina. We motored around the peninsula to the main port where we […]
As Paul explained last week, our road trip continued to Troy completing our Odyssey. We left Istanbul and headed towards Troy passing over the 1915 Çanakkale suspension bridge which spans the Dardanelles. The bridge was opened by President Erdoğan in 2022. The year ‘1915’ in the name honours an important Ottoman naval victory during World […]
Sailing ZigZag 