Catamaran Cruising

Hi everyone<div>As you can see from the map we haven,t been keeping still, just difficult to keep up with the internet.arkiz</div><div>We left the port of Aigina on the island of Aigina and headed for Varkiza, a bay south of Athens, lovely clear, warm blue water and nicely sheltered from the Meltemi (a strong wind, that comes down through the mountains) we anchored right under the flight path to Athens, didn't realise what a busy airport this way especially during the day) spent a couple of nights here, it was lovely.</div><div>We knew some strong winds where forcasted so decided to more on and try and get round the point. As the wind was too strong to get round the point we pulled into the bay at Sounion and went and said hello to Posedian and pay our dues for &nbsp;safe waters, .The temple of Posedian is impressive, looking out to sea at the top of a large hill. We left very early one morning during a calm and ran as quick as we could round the corner and then tucked into another little bay for a rest and to wail for the morning winds to calm down, Then after lunch we headed out again trying to get as far up the channel as we could, unfortuntly the winds changed and came onto our nose, too strongly, so we turned back and went into a marina just north of the new olympic marina,</div><div>Lavrion is a working commercial harbour, catering for holiday yachts, &nbsp;This is were Greece has gold and other precious metals, and silver mines have been worked here since 1000bc,</div><div>Made some new friends, but not going our way, so very early (again) head out trying to get to the sailing club at Khalkis to wait until able to get through the bridge into the north gulf of evia.</div><div>Started a nice gentle motor sail, then the wind changed and we had to push through for a little while, then, because of the other islands the wind changed direction and we had a great sail up, went under the new road bridge south of Khalkis and up into the Khalkis yacht club, &nbsp;picked up a mooring and had a nice rest, we dont normally do very early mornings, but it was worth it, some of the sailing we did was great and the islands are so lovely.&nbsp;</div><div>Now we just stay here until the winds die down, appently its normal, you just have to wail a &nbsp;few days and then it all goes back to being right again, we also had our first rain 2 nights ago, it cleaned the boat lovely and then the sun was shining again in the morning</div><div>The city of Khalkis is very spread out and busy, but get a drink and sit and watch, it's lovely.</div><div>It's deffinatly a hard life.</div><div>Sorry no pics yet.</div><div>Best wishes to you all</div><div>John and Margaret</div>

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