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June 14th, 2013 | 
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Current Location: Pylos, Navarino Bay, GreeceCurrent Position: 36 55.09 N 021 41.96 E Click to view map.
Distance sailed since last post: 131 nautical miles. View the map of our voyage track hereNoel has you all up to date on our travels minus some photos that were not organized yet. And don’t ask me what (Click to Read More...)
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Current Location: Olympia, GreeceCurrent Position: 37 38.61 N 021 37.76 E Click to view map. A welcome to Katakolo, the main port for visiting Olympia. As we were arriving in Katakolo late afternoon. That day they had 3 cruise ships in. After a crazy med mooring again on the town quay it was time (Click to Read More...)
Current Location: Sliema Creek, Valetta, MaltaCurrent Position: 35 54.41 N 014 30.48 E Click to view map.
Distance sailed since last post: 179 nautical miles. View the map of our voyage track hereOnce we escaped from Port de Peche, we then did a 3-day tour of the south, including the Sahara Desert, with 7 other (Click to Read More...)
Current Location: Southern TunisiaCurrent Position: 33 52.06 N 008 35.48 E Click to view map. Wow. Time flies. I cant believe it has been a month since we arrived in Tunisia. We spent a bit more time there than expected because of the work being done on the boat. But we got away and couldn’t (Click to Read More...)
Current Location: Ggantija Temples, GozoCurrent Position: 36 2.84 N 014 16.14 E Click to view map.After a nice sail from Tunisia, as Noel wrote on the blog while ago, we arrived in Malta on May 31st. Our first port of call was in this picturesque fishing port of Mgarr, in the beautiful island of Gozo. (Click to Read More...)
Current Location: Natural Sauna, PantelleriaCurrent Position: 36 46.51 N 011 59.48 E Click to view map.It is unfortunate that the town of Pantelleria presents such an uninviting face. Totally destroyed in the last war, it was rebuilt in a hurry with concrete blocks. It is clean, certainly, but it wins no points for charm. As (Click to Read More...)
Current Location: Marina di Ragusa, SicilyCurrent Position: 36 46.87 N 014 32.79 E Click to view map.
Distance sailed since last post: 42 nautical miles. View the map of our voyage track hereOn Saturday we had our last sail of the year. 🙁 From Syracuse we motored in a calm down to Porto Pallo, where (Click to Read More...)
Current Location: Stromboli, Aeolian IslandsCurrent Position: 38 48.43 N 015 14.27 E Click to view map.
Distance sailed since last post: 45 nautical miles. View the map of our voyage track hereHello all Now that you have read Noel’s post about our experience with the water spouts let me tell you what we have been (Click to Read More...)
Beautiful Taormina is situated in the south coast of Sicily almost at the tip where you get the boot! It is again, after Syracuse, one of the nice spots we visited before we’re headed through the Messina strait, which separates Sicily from mainland Italy in the Ionian sea. Taormina is about 200 meters above (Click to Read More...)
Current Location: Reggio di Calabria, ItalyCurrent Position: 38 8.19 N 015 39.27 E Click to view map.
Distance sailed since last post: 26 nautical miles. View the map of our voyage track hereTaormina is beautiful. Perched up on the mountain, it is all quaint narrow streets, beautiful venetian balconies and, of course, dozens of churches. (Click to Read More...)