10th July, Levkas Life’s a bitch – can we bring ourselves to move on?

For the last three weeks we have based ourselves in and around Nidri. Apart from a couple of days out to Meganisi, we’ve been at anchor firstly in Tranquil bay. When we got an unseasonal four consecutive days of wind and rain, we moved to Vliho. Leighton has been doing some electrical work which has given a helpful boost to the cruising kitty, and Cathy has been working with Barbara on the Ionian Magazine. Apart from that, we’ve been hanging out doing not very much. Well, someone’s got to do it!


We start to think about overwintering here, as we’ve got quite attached to the place – no great surprise there. We know a lot of people here now and we know where we can get help if we need it. Leighton would have no trouble getting a steady stream of work if he wanted it. Then it dawned on us that if we did that, we’d be in danger of never moving on. We’ve met people who’ve washed up here and taken root. Do we really want it to happen to us too? That’s not what we came here for, is it? It didn’t take us long to realise that if we wanted to settle down we’d want it to be in Devon, and we’re out here to travel and explore new places. So we’ll be saying our goodbyes and moving on once the family visits are over at the end of July.

Yesterday we sailed out to Varko bay on the mainland and invited Tom and Liz on Misty III (Leighton’s most recent customers) for a drink on board before heading up the canal to park on the quay at Levkas town. Cathy’s sister Fiona and her two teenage children are coming onboard for the next two weeks, and they’re arriving tomorrow! There’s a last minute scramble to get everything stowed away to make room for them, and a run to Lidl to stock up on basics. Getting our priorities right, we check out where we can all watch the World Cup final between Holland and Spain on Sunday night.