Towards the end of July we said goodbye to David and Fiona at Avalyk in Turkey and they took the overnight bus

to Istanbul to catch their flight home.  We checked out of Turkey and set off for Athens to collect our next family visitor,

Erica Beresford from London.

 

We had a fast passage across the Aegean to the Northern Cyclades island of Andrhos.  We didn't stay long as a gale

was forecast and we left in 30/35 knot winds to take shelter further east in the Saronic Gulf.

 

After meeting Erica and having a quick look at Athens we went south, calling at several islands as we arced back out to

the Cyclades, farewelling Erica at Paros where she caught the ferry back to Athens and we continued east to meet

our next guests in Bodrum, Turkey.

 

Zea Marina, Athens.....not numbered amongst out favorite marinas!

 

 

The Parthenon

 

 

View of Athens and Hadrian's Arch from the Parthenon

 

 

Poros, Greece....one of our favorite places in Greece

 

 

Poros at dusk.....

 

 

...and at nightfall

 

 

Hopeful seagulls

 

 

Back street in Poros

 

 

Clock tower on Poros

 

 

Russian Bay, Poros.  The ruins are a Russian Naval HQ from the early 1800s when they were

trying to foment a Greek rebellion against the Ottomans

 

 

Chapel on an islet in Russian Bay

 

 

Chapel on a point....very Greek

 

 

 

Hydra (home to Leonard Cohen, believe or not)

 

 

 

Hydra - entrance to the harbour

 

 

Inside Hydra harbour - yachts were moored 3 deep, so we left.

 

 

Erica checking the spinnaker setting

 

 

Anchorage with chapel on the island of Spetsai