Samothraki Greece
Arwenofbosham
Rob and Jacky Black
Sun 12 Jun 2011 16:13
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40 28.4 N 25 28.1 E
Samothraki Island Greece
We decided not to bother to stop at Gokeada (the
largest Turkish Island NW of the Dardanelles entrance) and pushed on to
Samothraki where our friends June and Steve
were moored. The journey was as usual a motor sail
with the wind light and on the port quarter most of the way. The sun was shining
but the swell was irksome causing us to roll
quite a bit which prevented the jib from staying
set and we hadn't bothered to pole it out so ended up just putting it
away!
The island was visible from 25 miles away as it
has incredibly high mountains/ hills (over 5000 feet). When we arrived the
harbour was almost full as it transpires that this was
a bank holiday weekend so a number of large ribs
and small power boats were on the quays we pretty much got the last space
available on the outer mole - quite a walk from the
area that June and Steve have their boat moored.
However it would seem that these will disappear tomorrow so we may move. June
and I took the local bus for a trip into the interior
of the south part of the island and visited a small
hill village with incredible views to the south and west. We have been
recommended to go there to one of the various tavernas where the local specialty
is free range goat!
Planning a visit later in the week. By chance we
spoke to a guy who we had stopped to ask about car hire and it turned out this
is his home island but he works as a charter boat skipper out of Athens. He had
also been to
Plymouth University and spent 3 years working at
Watergate Bay Surf school! he was a mine of information and so friendly and
helpful.
We will probably stay here for a few more days as
Jacky will go by ferry on Thursday to Alexandropoulos to sort out a Greek dongle
and get the Greek phone set up - there is no where here to do it!
En route from Canakkale we motored into the bay
where some of the British (including the Highland Light Infantry) Troops landed
for the start of the Gallipoli campaign - having done some research Jacky thinks
that her grandfather landed here around the 6 of June 1915!
One other thing I forgot to write in the last blog
was that I broke off a large cusp from my first molar top left on Thursday
morning pleased to report that by 1400 I had had it repaired very
effectively - well it looks ok and it doesn't hurt,
by a dentist for the princely sum of 20TYL ( about
£8.00).
Have managed to rig the wifi ariel here and we are
picking up a free sight hence the ability to get on line again. No power on this
end of the jetty but with the sun and wind we are generating 5 amps at the
moment so no need to run the generator
yet.
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