Vizantio Apartments Hermoupolis

... sorted and ready to go. It's weird the items in your life that you take for granted. We have been getting by with washing all of our clothes by hand, but, they never did get 100% clean. We did one load of washing in Paros and it cost us 10Euro (50AED) so this was an expensive option. Last night I managed 3 washes and the machine has been on this morning since dawn with more to go. The great thing is that if our clothes get dirty this ...

... that! Finikas is a pleasant wee village, mostly a resort. It has an excellent bakers & the supermarket gave us a couple of promotional baseball caps & a T shirt when we paid! The "marina" is really one pontoon but has electric & water for 3 euros each & it cost us 6euros to stay. The harbour master is a friendly lad but does like to cram the boats in. At one point there was a boat using the 2 boats behind him as a pontoon to tie up to and all of ...

... This caused it to suddenly turn at right angles to my boat. He then re-anchored them while I sorted out my anchor rope. Next a boat came in with broken steering and, again took my anchor rope through ninety degrees - forgiveable in the circumstances. When this boat left the following morning another member of the flotilla came in and of course Pa had to help them and, guess what, he anchored them over my bloody anchor rope and then re-anchored them. On ...

... Dario! Johnny and Nick soon returned from the Casino with huge grins on their faces, Johnny having won over 1000 Euro. So we left the ship, and crossed the road to the bar opposite where we danced and chatted before l rolled once again into bed at a time l don't want to even think about! Iam now offically living and have adapted to Greek time, where one eats dinner at 10pm, and then drinks coffee until 2am and then sees what the night has in store! The night is always young in Greece!

... Quest has large water tanks and solar panels. We had plenty of choices for side-ties here and as we slowly made our way toward the dock, that darned Mr. Wind roared through and once again, concrete and boat without padding... We were secure and checked the hull for damage. Nothing that a bit of sanding and two coats of paint and a little drying time wouldn't fix. We walked into town (probably 2.5 miles) looking for a computer cable (with success). Walked back to the boat and ...

How on Earth did I get to be so lucky?

My family and I went on a cruise of the Greek Islands. We ate a lot, got sea sick once, soaked up the sun, and absorbed the classically beautiful white and blue colours on the islands. There weren't very much ship activities that my sister and I were interested in but Allyson and I did win a bingo game! Mykonos was by far our favorite island because of its beauty.