georgebackhus on September 19th, 2008

Despite pleas from friends and relatives, veiled behind dodgy weather forecasts, we slipped quietly out of the port of Hania, Crete at 0630 on the morning of August 2nd and headed northeast. We had begun to trust weather information we got from the National Observatory of Athens off the Internet at www.meteo.gr . It hasn’t [...]

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georgebackhus on September 5th, 2008

The two most difficult things about Crete for us was getting there and leaving - both for completely different reasons. If the Meltemi tries to keep you out, the wonderful people, beautiful landscape and sumptuous food won’t let you go.
We departed the snug little anchorage in Khelatronas Bay on the south end of Kasos Island [...]

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