Vathi Town Ithaca

After a great night’s sleep we head back to the village of Vathi on Ithaca Island for some supplies.  As it’s almost lunch time we indulge in a early lunch of pizza and salad.  We then decide that we might as well stay here the night.  We have already picked up a great place on the wharf and are happy with our location.  By late afternoon the wharf gets very busy and is full by sundown.  We do hear that a ferry is coming in tonight and then realise we are at the spot closest to where the 300+ft ferry will arrive.  To be safe Greg ties on two springer lines to ensure we are not pushed around too much.  The wind has already picked up to 20Kts and we are protecting the rest of the fleet.

We walk around the town, do some shopping and get some more supplies.  We have dinner by the water and Greg orders the lamb speciality which he loves.  It is slow cooked in baking paper  with eggplants and feta cheese.  It melts in your mouth.

After our night cap and an episode of Mad Men we get to bed about 11pm but are soon woken by the sound of a large ship.  The ferry arrives at 1.30am and we get pushed around by it’s stern thruster.  We both get up to watch but I get bored and go back to sleep.  Greg stays up waiting for it to leave which it doesn’t so by 3am he hits the sack as well.  I get woken up about 6.30am, the ferry it getting ready to leave as the very large lorries back onto the ferry taking supplies to the next village.  By 7am the ferry has gone so now just waiting for the next thing.

Night Ferry

Since I'm up I go for a walk all around the Bay its very pretty with beautiful houses and apartments on the water.  Some of them remind me of the apartments in the movie Shirley Valentine.  I’m pretty sure I was here in 1998 and remember dancing for hours on our plank with the girls.

Memories of Shirley Valantine

Our local cafe Caramela's

After some great coffee from Caramela's and fresh pastries from the cake shop we head off.  It’s a beautiful morning with a fresh breeze.  Once we get away from the town we put up the main and head sail, then the wind drops right off of course.  We drop the head sail until we get further past the land masses then haul it up again.  We are heading Nth to the Sth end of Levkas to meet up with Gill and Tony in Sivota.