39 52.465N 025 03.514E Myrina, Limnos, Greece

Pipedream
Sat 25 Jun 2011 20:28
Business day. We motor-sailed from our first Limnos anchorage to the only 'marina on Limnos which turned out to be a typical Greek city quay. We anchored off the quay and dingyed ashore where we ran into Wolfgang and Margarite from Kemer. They have been here for over two weeks now and say it is one of their favorites. It is growing on us as well. We checked in with immigration, customs and the port police... it is a small place as ports of entry go and is almost one stop shopping. We hit the cash machines for some Euros. About 70 Euros got us and the boat checked into the Greece and the EU.

We then had lunch. Veal steak rice and veggies for me and big pork chops, potatoes and lemon sauce for Mary and Katie. We passed a laundry and came back with 20 pounds of towels, sheets, and otherwise hard to hand wash stuff. I was able to once again get camping gas for the barbeque. Tomorrow morning I need to find a 1" pipe nipple as the one I installed on the sea water pump is leaking and I don't want to disturb it until I have another one just in case. We also got our communications gear back online in Greece (new country).

We all climbed up to the castle that overlooks the twin harbors here late in the afternoon. Really cool ruins. Very little restoration but the place is of a later vintage I think it was built by the Venetians. Very big and impressive. You could put maybe 2 or 3 St Augustine forts in it. We waited out a thunder storm tonight and although it is supposed to blow about 20 kts tomorrow morning it should moderate in the afternoon.