Fai Tira on the way to Reggio Calabria Italy. 38:07.63N 15:39.08E

12^th 13^th 14^th  July 2011

Judy left the boat and Becky my youngest daughter joined me in Zakynthos.  I hadn’t seen her for nearly 2 years so it was a great reunion. 

I asked her what she like to do and she said I need to swim in warm water so we both went snorkelling.

Doesn’t she look white.

We then showered and headed into town for a look around the town and booked out with the authorities before heading along the deserted main street (it being Sunday evening) and headed for the same restaurant as Judy and I had eaten at a couple of nights before.

The deserted main square.  That was until about 10pm when it suddenly came to life with hundreds of people mainly in family groups.

The next morning we dropped our moorings and headed to the south of the Island with little or no wind.  We passed by Banana beach and other places Judy and I had explored by car previously.

We arrived at the small Marathonis Island in the bay at the south of Zakynthos.  This had a lovely beach and was in the turtle breading zone. None the less we didn’t see one of these lovely creatures.

We went swimming and Becky tried rowing and did extremely well.  We were also visited by a mobile store that sold everything from Champagne to ice cream, so we bought a couple of Magnums.

We rowed in the blue cave just before sunset.

Becky produced her first on board meal which was great. We then retired to bed ready for an not to early start the next day for Italy.

The morning saw us leave Greek waters on a 3 day trip to Italy.

The weather was quite calm for the first day but the wind increased the second day unfortunately!! Yes you guessed it “on the nose”.

There was lots of time to chill out before we had our second evening meal prepared by Becky.

Our first sighting of Italy at 05:30am only another 6 hours to go.

We arrived in Reggio Calabria in strong winds which made mooring a bit of a problem especially when Becky had never done it before. We had two attempts and all went well on the second.  The wind was howling and still is.  We leave for the Aeolian Islands tomorrow.  More on Reggio Calabria later.