A slow start to 2024

It has been raining for most of the month of May in the UK, so quite a disappointment as we have been home-based entertaining Mo’s brother Roger, his wife Vicki and daughter Bridget, all from New Zealand. Notwithstanding the weather, it has been great to see them for a couple of days and show them some old and characterful corners of Hampshire. Bridget enjoyed it all, her first ever trip to the UK, but they are now heading off to continue their Northern Hemisphere adventures in Sicily and Italy.

Left to right: Mo, Vicki, Bridget, Nigel, Roger

We head off to Preveza on June 1st, a few weeks later that usual, but we had bones to mend after Mo fractured her left wrist scaphoid and Nigel had to recover from a cortisone injection in his knee. Slightly below our normal fitness levels, we are planning a gentle start in the Ionian, launching on 3rd and heading off to join the Offshore Cruising Club summer get together in Vliho Bay on 5th & 6th. This should break us in gently!