2018 Greek Islands, Albania, Malta & Sicily

Levitha

The trouble with these Greek Islands is that there are many of them and it’s hard to decide where to go. There are beautiful bays, Venetian castles, ancient ruins and quaint towns and villages lite ...

Rhodos and Simi

A few days ago in Rhodes, my father, my sister Friederike and her husband Benno joined me for a few weeks. A good opportunity to explore Rhodes and that we did. The town is actually very nice becaus ...

Rhodos

Today is the last day of Richie and Siobhan from AYC, who joined me for a short five days in Agios Nikolaos. We just had a great sail from Chalki, a small, picturesque island off the West coast of R ...

Chalki and Rhodos

Today is the last day of Richie and Siobhan from AYC, who joined me for a short five days in Agios Nikolaos. We just had a great sail from Chalki, a small, picturesque island off the West coast of R ...

Agios Nikolaos

This is probably the nicest town in Crete, at least of those that we have seen. The town is clean, not overly developed and a bit upscale. So much so that we spent Euro 330 for dinner on Christoph a ...

Spina Longa, Crete

The last few days, we made our way slowly East along the coast, mostly sailing with light winds. Our first stop was an anchorage called “Bali.” Not quite what most people would associate with ...

Rethymno, Crete

Now the forecast calls for a nice blow from the North East to start on April 21 late. But in the morning of April 20, there is no wind. So much of the distance to our first port on Crete, Kissamos, ...

Kapsali Harbor, at anchor

Mycenae was worth the drive from Kilada. I had been there before, to the day almost 45 years ago. Not much has changed. The Lions Gate is still there and not much else except if you have the imagi ...

Kilada at anchor

The last few days have been a blur. I arrived in Athens on the Orthodox Easter Sunday, which meant that everything was closed in Kilada, even our favorite Taverna. So a new place had to be tried and ...