Avlemonas,
Island of Kythire.

Position:   36:13:33N     23:04:13E

July 9^th, 2013

On our way into the Aegean Sea from Sicily we passed through the straits at Cape Maleas situated on the SE corner of Peloponnisos.  We noticed that this was only 60 miles to the north of our current position, Khania. We considered the anchorages around there at the time in case of an emergency. There was a cute little village on a cute little island and it had a cute little anchorage too – and it was only 50 miles away from us. It was now late afternoon and so we could be at the anchorage by dawn the next morning.
Then SLEEEEEEEEEP!

The anchorage was great. It wasn’t crowded. It was great holding and there seemed to be a neat little harbour for the small local fishing boats – probably a tavern too.

Isolated along a long empty beach with only the seagulls as company we slept all day and all night.
The next morning we were full of beans and desperate to explore the village!
As we dropped the dingy a super yacht arrived and anchored just along the shore. The guests took a walk along the beach whilst the crew watched the anchor and prepared lunch. ( Are we missing a trick here Les?)

We found a super little tavern. Being the only customers the owner prepared the exact meal we wanted and lent us the use of his WiFi (great speed on a tiny island!) – we FaceTime’d Mum from the terrace and gave her a first hand view of the island, the harbor, the beach, ‘Timeless’ and our meals! I love the internet.

Being full of beans we were both keen to head for Malta.
Malta is only 430 miles away ..and it would be our LAST country before flying back to Canada for August!
Goodbye Greece!