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Tom arrived on time from Piraeus having been travelling for 18 hours and missing a night’s sleep. Hungry we hit a delightful restaurant, Posiedon, on the north quay and sated all the needs before a much needed night’s sleep. Refreshed, we left Poros on 29th May and had a good sail north, even though weContinue reading “The Saronic Gulf with Tom”

We left Kalamata on Monday 22nd May.  All of our contingency time had been taken up with waiting for adverse weather to pass through so we were on a mission to have an uninterrupted journey forward!  This we did and arrived in Poros on Saturday 27th May for a crew change.  Peter could depart toContinue reading “Kalamata to Poros”

We spent 3 days in all in Kiparissia as it was decided to be the best option for shelter from the gales due Sunday and Monday. Sunday 14th was a sultry day, Monday saw the wind. Had this account been written on Tuesday, the language would have been very colourful, but now, a few daysContinue reading “Kiparissia to Kalamata”

Before recounting the tales of our first week on board Déjà vu this season, it seems a good idea just to remind all readers that, as I write, it is 13th May and we are in Greece, at a latitude of 37 degrees north, on the west coast of the Peloponnese, in  the small townContinue reading “First week in Greece on our ‘Round the Peloponnese’ trip”

It is May 2nd and we are frenetically getting packed up to fly off to Preveza tomorrow. The usual round of maintenance awaits us: antifouling and polishing: shopping and stowing before we launch Deja Vu on Monday 8th. We are missing the King’s coronation but hope to see some of it on one screen orContinue reading “May 2023 and back to the boat”

An early visit to Greece this year had been demanded by the need to eliminate the diesel bugs that had contaminated both of our diesel tanks, or so we thought! The contamination had been identified on the pre-filters during the winter service in October 2022 and it was agreed that the engineers who service ourContinue reading “March 2023”

We were ready to leave the Gulf of Corinth but our decision to delay our departure to allow the strong easterly winds to give way to more moderate southerlies proved to be the wrong one. We should have taken the opportunity the easterlies presented to shoot us west before turning north to the safe anchorageContinue reading “Last week in September”

We hired a car for the next trip to Agrinio where Mo had more admin to do. The journey there, just 38km was surprisingly dramatic through a lovely gorge. The business concluded we decided to take the causeway parallel to the canal we had transited to get to the Marina at Messalonghi. It was aContinue reading “The Gulf of Corinth revisited”

Michele has a reputation of attracting rain when on holiday and it was not without trepidation that we looked forward to their arrival on Friday 2nd September. It did indeed rain stair rods before day break and there was a gentle drizzle during the first part of the morning they were due to land. ByContinue reading “Visitors On Board”

An easy flight down to Preveza on Sunday 28th August, the plane was only half full and we had the most delightful service from our friend Hazel’s lookalike/soundalike of some 20 years back! We landed around 9pm in the dark, a salutary reminder that the days are shorter, but no less cool as a wallContinue reading “Launching for September 2022”