Meltemi Village

... and had no idea where we were. It is all about the journey we decided, not the destination. We continued to a pretty fishing village called Pollonia where the sea side boat sheds had red, yellow, green and blue doors opening from caves right on the ...

... Naxos, where I arrived about 8.30 in the evening. In this way I got to visit one more Greek island, although unintentionally. The meltemi wind was blowing hard at 50-60 knots with waves of about 8 metres in height - they even cancelled a few ferries ...

... for 20 years before moving back to Amorgos, their home island. Our hotel was located at a very pretty, pedestrian only village called Tholaria. Tholaria is located on a high hill overlooking the beautiful Aegiali Bay and its very nice beach. The weather ...

... it always seemed to lather up perfectly. We were only a day or two on Fologandros before again setting sail; with the meltemi wind blowing steadily (as a Canadian, I considered it a warm wind although it was northerly) we beam-reached by sail easterly ...

... to park at the entrance to the town and we walked to the restaurant (due to the narrow roads).  Walking into the village, the first thing I noticed was that there appeared to be a lot of construction in progress, with many of the stone and concrete ...

... the Greek Banks and the Greeks blamed it on my bank, I blame it on banks in general.) We had docked Freya, safe from the meltemi which had returned once again, on a public wharf at the village Maltezana, which was free, but far away from the main town - ...

... to dominate the bay. Like private Fraser in "Dad's Army" it sems to be saying "We're all doomed!".   The village itself is a friendly place. It is a fairly modern development except for the small Ottoman castle above the harbour and , bizarrely, ...

... proceeded to do this & when he pulled the anchor rope in it re-set. Good anchor 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 ...

... in the restaurant! We asked the owner of the restaurant about the strong winds and she said they are called the meltemi, a cooling strong wind, blows, sometimes strongly enough to create rough water, which occur mostly in July and August in Santorini. ...

... work under sail and engine against wind and current. However, we arrived at 14.30 into a very sheltered harbour in a wee village. We were surrounded by  a multitude of giant motorboats and private yachts who all arrive here, anchor immaculately in ...