Athens, Greece While planning our trip to Athens, we read a lot of opinions, much of which were that Athens is just a big, busy, dirty city with only one redeeming feature, the Acropolis. We even met people who said it wasn’t worth a visit. But with our newfound love of Greek ruins, we had […]

Golf of Patras to the Eastern Peloponnisos, Greece We often blog about the exciting things we see and do while cruising. But in between the iconic ruins and thrilling passages are normal, everyday occurrences that take cruising from one long vacation into just a regular, somewhat unusual, life. After a few weeks sailing around the […]

Corinth Canal, Greece To sail from the Ionian Islands to the Aegean Sea, you can either go south around the Peloponnisos, or travel east through the Gulf of Corinth; we chose to go east. The entrance to the Gulf of Corinth is marked by the Rion-Andirrion suspension bridge, the longest cable-stayed bridge in the world. […]

Olympia, Delphi & Epidaurus For the last few years, we have been watching the Greek economic crisis with interest. As a result of government overspending, Greece was forced to adopt harsh austerity measures to bring the country’s deficit under control. This, in turn, caused much unhappiness with Greek residents, a change in lifestyle and drop […]

Ionian Islands, Greece A cruising friend once gave us some very good advice. “Always remember, any docking that you can walk away from, is a good docking.” We have passed these brilliant words on to other cruisers, posted them on Facebook, blogged about them, and repeated them to ourselves after every hairy experience. But we […]

Skorpios Island, Greece On our fifth night in Greece, we sat down to dinner in our private cove at Jackie’s favorite beach house. Jackie is Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis and we were anchored off Skorpios, a private island of the Onassis dynasty and the wedding venue of Jackie and Ari. There is no public access […]