Greece off-season

Hi everyone! In our latest post, we had just arrived to Corfu (Greece) from Dubrovnik. Since then we’ve had an awesome time exploring the Greek coast 🙂

We stayed in Corfu for five days, where we did some nice hiking, explored the city of Corfu and fixed a few things on the boat including our engine. We sheltered from strong winds for 2 days in a beautiful harbor located right behind an ancient fortress in Corfu-city.

We then sailed further south towards Mytikas. The sail was meant to take us 24 hours but the direction of the wind was not as announced in the weather forecast and after 12 hours, we decided to anchor on the island of Paxos and await better winds. Those came the next day and we could continue our trip to Mytikas through rather strong winds. We arrived in Mytikas yesterday evening.

Today, we visited Mytikas, which is a very typical Greek costal town. We also went climbing in a beautiful sector right by the sea 🙂

Our next stop should now be in Sicily! We are catching a favorable wind window which should bring us east and north winds over the next 3 days, perfect for the crossing of the Ionian sea. We will departure on Monday morning for a crossing which will be up to 280 nm long and will take up to 3 days. As for our last crossing, we will first aim at a closer harbour, Roccella Ionica, which we will reach in 2 days and from there we’ll check if the weather allows us to continue safely to Sicily.