Off we go!

We wake up to a beautiful morning.  It's 7am and I'm busy making our coffees and toasties.  After breakfast we haul up the head sail.  It's a pretty easy task this time round.  We release the lines and we are away by 8am.  It's sad to be leaving again but I'm sure we get back here again in the future.

We are headed for Big Vathi on the island of Ithica it's about six hours from Messalonghi.  The sea is like a mill pond, there is no wind at all.  We get an all over dose of vitamin D as the haze finally clears. I stand watch as Greg scrubs the back third of the yacht.

First of all we must visit Ouzo Bay and have a swim.  The gauge is showing the sea temp and water temp to be 31 degrees.  That's hot for this time of year.  A yacht is in our place to we anchor in the first bay which is just as nice.  The water is about 26 degrees so a little chilly but refreshing.

We pull up anchor and head into town and arrive around 3pm.  It's not very busy so we can choose where we reverse into the wharf.  We head to one of our favouite tavernas for a lite snack of white bait, saganaki mushrooms and local sausage.  It's a treat and very delicious.

It's now time for a siesta, we are pretty knackered so happy to fall sleep for a few hours and stay out of the sun.

After a well earned cat nap we get all pretty and head into town.  We have a drink in the square as we decide what to do.  We go for a walk and find an amazing taverna that has a baby pig on a spit so we know where we are having dinner tonight.  We decide to go visit George early so walk  over to the other side of the village and meet him at his bar.  We met George last year when we were here with Belinda and Robert and we had a fun night at his bar.  We have been friends on Facebook since.  

George is looking good although he tells us he was partying at a bucks party till 8am this morning but you can't tell by looking at him.  We catch up when he is not busy and have a chilly shot then say our good byes.  It's already 10pm!

We walk back into town to the piggy place to find they only have one serve left, which means we don't get too much pig but what we get is pretty amazing it just melts in your mouth.  The salad is a different and delicious one with dried figs, cooked chicken, walnuts and halomui.  It's a very enjoyable meal and then we hit the sack as we are very tired.