Blogs from South Aegean, Greece, Europe - page 109

A boat is a funny thing you know. There is almost no privacy so after a while you get everything. Jealousy fights, naked people, things that should have stayed inside (also some food that got out the wrong way again :-)) Today we wanted to go the way home. We came a lot farer then we expected and without measuring it in the card I would say it is about 120 nautic miles from mykonos to athens where we have to give back the boat...at an average speed of 6 miles/hour that makes 24 hours sailing.... However everybody had a hangover so we started late (around 9 a.m. it must have been) and I only had 2 crew members to get the boat untied. We decided to go only a short way back to Syros ... read more

I guess every one of you has had sex. Was it good? I mean really good? And how long did it last? 30 minutes, 2hours (lucky ) ? So this was the day. We got tired from being in Syros and decided to leave even with a predicted wind of 6 Bft and waves supposed to be 2.5 m high (which on sea looks like 5m). We had a vote going and finally decided for Mykonos. After some bathing (baying actually that should be called) we finally left Syros at around 4 p.m. and had some 30 nautical miles to go. We went south first and had an average wind (against all forecasts) but that was because we were leeward of the island. But then finally we met it - the storm. YES. At first ... read more

I mixed up the dates somehow. It's incredible how you are actually loosing track of what day it is. If I would be sailing around the world for a while I would not even know which year we have after a while :-) The wind got very strong over the night and in the morning when I got u we had wind speeds up to 35 knots, which is beaufort 7 and that was IN the harbour, leeward of a mountain. Captain Ted and John had sent me some SMS telling me about 5m waves outside and after doublechecking that in the internet I found that the wind was 6-8 Bft and the waves were 2.5m - which is looking like 5m. With this conditions it would have been stupid and irresponsible to go out ... read more

"Where are you from?" "California." Laughter ensues..... This is a common conversation we have had here in Naxos, Greece. I guess people find humor in the fact that we are from California, land of bottle blondes and never ending beaches crowned with impossibly beautiful mansions..well at least that is their idea of it. Last night we were sitting near the port when two Norweigens, who were in the girl's words, "a wee bit drunk", came charging at us yelling "Callispera(Good night)". I think they were excited that they knew some words in Greek. They asked where we were from and when I answered the girl shrieked, "I LOVE THE O.C, THE O.C, THE O.C!". Oh shit I thought. That stupid show is what people think we are. I've seen the show once or twice and it ... read more

On es ajd a notre derniere journee a Mykonos. QUand on est arrive, on sest fait embarquer par du monde dhotels, des requins. Finalement la place est pas si mal....il y a meme une piscine qui nest pas vrmt la piscine de lhotel mais bon. On a fait pas mal de plage, on sest loue un scooter et on a fait un tour de lile. Je rushais un petit peu avec le scooter au debut et on a eu quelques problemes techniques mais bon. Ici tout est super cher, si tu veux prendre une biere sur une terasse tu doit compter 6 euros facilement alors vivement une ile un peu moins chere malgres que cest vrmt beau! A ouin....pi meme apres 2 semaines...jsuis tjrs pas bronze, my bad! ... read more