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It was fun in Sigri to catch up with Ron, Matty, and their two Jack Russells, Captain Jack, and Sammy the Sailor. After a visit to the Museum of the Petrified Forest the next morning, we set off again round the south side of the island. He sailed into the large Kalpos Kalloni, heading for Apotheke Bay.  You dont see too many channel markers when sailing in Greece Captain Dick had to do proper pilotage to get Missy Bear up the shallow entrance. Basically, this means detailed,

Greek-speaking refugees from Turkey Imagine, if you will, being five years old. Your father and older brother are still locked up in an internment camp. Your house has been burned down. Your mother has been crushed in the quayside throng, fallen into the water and drowned. Men are now fishing for her body with hooked poles, to try and loot any personal possession she might have been carrying. You are effectively an orphan (as your father and brother will probably soon die of

Shipping passing Lemnos by Today, the world passes Lemnos by. The Marine Traffic app shows how the cargo vessels and container ships spewing from the Dardanelles, ride the maritime highway, passing between the island and Türkiye enroute  to Athens, the Suez Canal, the Strait of Gibraltar, and beyond. Although there’s an airport, this sleepy island is still not that touristy, despite its nature, history, wonderful beaches and water-sports. And not so many yachts arrive here, p

Myrina quay from the Kastro I left you last time when we had just moored on Myrina town quay. Myrina is definitely a town and not a village. There is a new town quay for visiting yachts and the lifeboat, and the much older, smaller fishing harbour, that is surrounded by tavernas and next to a sandy bathing beach. Old fishing harbour, Myrina We walked from the harbour into a narrow pedestrian street, covered above by a pergola with climbing plants providing shade. Absolutely d

or "Towards the Eastern Sporades " When anyone mentions the ‘Sporades’, most people, like me, think of the islands of Skiathos and Skopolos, in the north-west Aegean. I would certainly have failed a pub quiz if asked to which island chain Lesbos and Samos belonged. But, dear reader, they are also the Sporades, albeit the named “Eastern Sporades”. [ Ed, ‘sporades’ in Greek means “those scattered”. It basically referred to all the islands that were not in the Cyclades ] That me