The volcanic island of Nissiros direction. The last eruption date 1886 and the volcano is still considered active. As for the thousands of tourists each year, We want to walk in the crater between fumaroles and boiling water puddles that rise to the surface.
The Dodecanese archipelago (which means the 12 Islands) forms a Crescent along the Turkish coast. The mountains are a little less arid than in the Cyclades, some are even green and woody. The website www.poseidon.hcmr.gr, which gives the weather marine in Greece, indicates that sea water is at 17-18 ° C, i.e. a few…
After leaving the island of IOS we go back to the North and the small Cyclades. Lunch at the bottom of a "fjord" on the north side of IRAKLIA, then anchor for the night in a sheltered bay of SKHINOUSIA. A gust of wind is announced and the next day we pull edges towards the island of AMORGOS where we…
We continue our cabotage in the Cyclades at the discretion of the wind blows and shelters that we find. The time is beautiful with beautiful sunny days and the heating is no longer necessary to warm evenings. In this season of the gusts of wind force 8 or 9 regularly sweep the Aegean Sea. Fortunately…
Finally we discover these rugged Islands in the blue and white villages perch at the top of cliffs. After a final step in the Peloponnese, We stored the bicycles at the bottom of the hold and on foot on each island we climb by road, borrow stairs which never, Escaladons of the…
Tuesday 5 January 2016 The Sunrise the sky is blue and a wind decreasing to West we decide to raise the anchor. Here we are on the road to Ak Tainaron (the middle of the Peloponnese finger). Halfway through a weather report announces that in two days there will be a strong westerly wind throughout the…
Thursday 24 December 2015: Katakolon The port of Katakolon is the closest to Olympe. A good step for us and it would be nice to make some strides on this legendary Olympic Stadium. It is one of the ports of Greece with the most traffic of cruise ships (more than 300 per year) and there is a…
The blue sky, the Sun and summer temperatures (in the middle of the day) We invite you to take our time down South. We therefore take the late arrival of cold and winter wind blows to discover the Ionian Islands. Summer is the playground for hundreds of sailboats and…
Among the restored ruins of a theatre Greco-Romain Nathalie discovers talents of 'great' singer'... and we are not among the Lilliputians!