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Whatever next? After Anne and Joe left, we started comedy of errors - or was it a tragedy. First there was the visit to the doctor when Kate’s eye swelled up. After 15 minutes she had some cream, tablets and a 150 euro bill. After a little disagreement, Kate calmly said “what I am going to do is say thank you, give you 50 euros and leave now”. And she did - she was spectacular! Then after a couple of nice days we planned our passage east across the Aegean, but by then the weather was against us so we had [View Full Entry]

Kate and Andy wandering - Andrew and Kate Thorley | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 2nd 2009 | 53 Views | [diary=441475]

Would you like salt with that?
Greek islands or North sea coast?
Pot-holing?

Skiathos - Skopelos - Alonnisos - Peristeri - Skantzoura We had just a few days to potter about before our sailing guests - Anne and Joe - arrived. So, having just fixed the electric motor on the anchor windlass, all was ready for them to join us. We set off from Skiathos to Loutraki on Skopelos in strong winds and with both sails reefed. This was when the stitching along the back edge and the bottom edge of the foresail decided to disintegrate. Nine summers of UV and it had had enough. Displaying our flapping bits of sail fabric we arrived [View Full Entry]

Kate and Andy wandering - Andrew and Kate Thorley | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 22nd 2009 | 55 Views | [diary=438443]

Their flight comes in to land
Amarandos - location for the filming of "Happy Birthday Richard and Jill"
This is what I call cruising!

We are now in lovely breezy sailing conditions - so much more pleasant. We crossed through the opened bridge at Khalidi (tidal currents of up to 7 knots) at midnight amongst all the other boats milling around waiting for the radio call from the coastguard. You can imagine the chaos. Stopped off at quite a few cute little places on route but nothing spectacular. Although we do get very excited about big supermarkets and lightweight bread (rather than the doorstop variety) Andy has started making flat bread on board for times when we have run out - very tasty. The Bobster [View Full Entry]

Kate and Andy wandering - Andrew and Kate Thorley | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 10th 2009 | 40 Views | [diary=435424]

Arko sunset
Flat bread
Skiathos is not quiet

Sailing.... Boat - 51', well decked out yacht.... On Board - Skipper, Dani (Greek lady - with a shitload of sailing experience)... 2 other couples myself and 3 other ladies.... Yep you've gotta love the quality of people that are attracted to this sport (sorry everyone, can't get you any photo's yet, but trust me "Life is Good".... Sailing out on crystal clear deep blue seas, magnificent views of Athens fading away over the horizon.... First Isle is Aegina, Beautiful island / Marina and a great local meal topped off a great day - calm waters in the harbour, drinks and [View Full Entry]

SPLATA - (Stupid People Laugh At This Also) | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: May 27th 2009 | 47 Views | [diary=402680]


By ChloeH
March 30th 2009
Back to Civilization Europe » Greece » North Aegean » Chios
Stayed in Mesta for a few days, a medieval village on the island of Chios in Greece, just across from Turkey. The village has been in continual habitation since the 14th century and the castle like center of the town is still very much intact. There are only 300 permanent residents now, but it used to be a flourishing town of 2000 or so, profitting from trade of mastic, a resin from the mastic tree which apparently only grows well in the south of Chios and nowhere else. It was a great commodity with prices at its height similar to its [View Full Entry]

ChloeH - Chloe Huan | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: March 30th 2009 | 108 Views | [diary=386128]

Amazing painted houses in Pyrgi
Lemon trees everywhere and tomato hanging to dry

Greeting! This will be a 2 part blog because I don't have the time to sort the pics yet...sooo many pictures, so little time I want to spend in this bar with the techno music blaring! However, the Mythos beer is pretty good! Just had to re-read my last blog to remember what stories I told last entry. We have thoroughly enjoyed our time her on Chios, an Island of just over 800 sq km's! The highest Mnt is 1297 metres and we may have crossed t tonight! We rented scooters yesterday and headed for South Chios. The reason we picked [View Full Entry]

Gord and Brenda Greek Islands - 30 Sept - 24 Oct 2008 | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 10th 2008 | 79 Views | [diary=332313]

Church Pyrgi
Greek Orthydox Church Masta
she wants to go for a ride

Hey I have kind of lost track of things here...had to look at the pics to see where I had been! This is going to be a long one because its been a few days and will be a while again until I write. We are having a rest day and I am in a bar that will let me use my laptop for the price of a cup of coffee, Gord is out shopping. The next 2 days we are renting scooters and will be touring Chios. I said earlier that pictures are better than words to discribe what we [View Full Entry]

Gord and Brenda Greek Islands - 30 Sept - 24 Oct 2008 | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 6th 2008 | 75 Views | [diary=330930]

Ipsilou Monestary
Ipsilou Monastary Chapel
switchbacks all day long

Hello all! I think I already have a day 3 but since this is about yesterday and I'm writing it on 3 Oct I'll call it how I see it! We were up at 3 am yesterday for our flight from Athens to Lesvos (aka Lesbos, Mytiline)Island, the 3rd largest Greek Island. Excellent 45 minute flight on Agean Airways, and tho Athens was amazing, we felt like we were finally in the Greece we had imagined. Our car was delivered to us from Cosmos car rental and away we went. It's been years since Gord drove a standard and I have [View Full Entry]

Gord and Brenda Greek Islands - 30 Sept - 24 Oct 2008 | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 3rd 2008 | 109 Views | [diary=330296]

View from airport
Our Car
1st view of Molyvos

By Greece Trip
August 6th 2008
Eressos Montage Europe » Greece » North Aegean » Lesbos
So we haven't blogged for a bit, but we've been here in Skala Eressos on Lesbos for about 10 days or so. This entry is kind of a compilation of things we have done on the island: We're staying on the lower floor of a house that belongs to Eleni's relatives. Because this floor isn't connected to the one above it, we essentially have our own house with three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen and a living room. The house is maybe 150 yards from the actual beach. The entire town consists of about 20 bars/restaurants, a couple grocery stores, some [View Full Entry]

Greece Trip - Michael, Eleni, Sam, Aaron, Mark, Matt | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 9th 2008 | 187 Views | [diary=309067]


The Acropolis and Stuff Everyone met at the girls' room at 10:30 to begin the metro ride to the Acropolis. We purchased 24-hour metro tickets for 3 euro and hopped on the rails to the Acropolis stop. The line to get in to the Acropolis seemed pretty long, so we waited in it for a while before Aaron realized that the actual line to get in was about two people long and the other one was to buy tickets. Thanks to his quick detective work, we corrected an entire line. However, this line adventure paled in excitement to the Acropolis itself. [View Full Entry]

Greece Trip - Michael, Eleni, Sam, Aaron, Mark, Matt | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 3rd 2008 | 47 Views | [diary=307728]



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