Sorry about the formatting on that last post!! As we didn't have a brilliant internet connection, I wrote the post in a word processor programme, pasted it to an email and then sent it to the auto publish function. High tech I know so of course it doesn't work well. Anyway, we are back to a decent internet connection here so I'll try it again the normal way.
Sunday night was nice and quiet in Korfos but as we were tied up to a Taverna quay, we decided to slip the ropes and go and anchor 100m away in the bay. The bay is very protected and the advantage of anchoring - rather than on the Taverna quay - was that we didnt get the constant slap slap from the wavelets hitting the stern. The depths were all around 10 metres so we dropped the anchor and dug in first time. Pyxis did the same. Pam and I went ashore for a lunchtime meal and a sit and watch the world go by in the glorious blue sky again.
Korfos is a really nice little town but not much there. There is a small supermarket but not a lot else. Certainly worth a stop if you are coming down from the canal and want to avoid the bustle of Aegina.
We had a very settled night on Monday and then got up at 9 ish to sail the boat down to Epidhavros, a long 9 mile sail. There was however zero wind so we had to motor all the way. Epidhavros had been our first planned place to stop but we knew there was a Neilson's flottila in here on the Monday night hence the 2 days in Korfos. We arrived in Epidhavros around 12.30pm to see most of the Neilson's boats sailing out and moored "stern to" on the main quay. Pyxis followed us in.
Epidhavros seems a much more tourist type town. Lots of bars and tavernas catering for the loads of coaches heading for the big ancient theatre about 20 miles away. We spent an afternoon walking around the town and then entertained a couple from Swansea who were on the boat next to us - Escapade - on their way from Turkey back to the UK. They gave us some useful info on places to stop but told us of the bad weather they had experienced all the way from Turkey. We had decided to stop in Epidhavros for at least 3 nights as we wanted to go to the ancient theatre and the weather forecast for the weekend looked a bit iffy to say the least. There was a forecast of a force 7 on Saturday and then swinging 180 degrees so any hope of going across to the first Aegean island was not an option. It looked like we could go down to Poros on Friday and sit out the strong winds there.
Late afternoon quite a "slop" had set up bouncing the boat a bit. The harbour is open to the east and that is the direction the afternoon sea breeze is. We only had 10 knts or so but was still a bit of a bounce. By late evening it had dropped and we had a very quiet night. More from Epidhavros tomorrow.
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