Sailing Greece
Eastern Peloponese 2012 - 18/10/2012 It was the fourth time that we sailed with S/Y Antiope from Athens. We had a wonderful time visiting beautiful places : Poros with its nice little beach, Ermioni with its artistic shops, Kiparrissi, Plaka with its large beach, Ieraka, a very authentic village, Monemvasia with its ancient village. The
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Fishing and sailing in Ionian islands
Ionian islands (Lefkas, Ithaca, Paxoi, Corfu) - 26/10/2011 During last September, I and my wife had a week of sailing vacations in Ionian islands. Starting our trip from Lefkas, we first sailed South visiting Ithaca and then North, going to Paxoi and Corfu where we delivered the boat. We enjoyed much staying on anchor in
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Passing the Corinth Canal
The Corinth canal - Greece - 05/09/2011 On September 2011, me and my family passed the Corinth canal. Our plan was to have our vacation in the beautiful Ionian islands: Ithaca, Lefkas, Paxoi and Corfu. It is an exciting experience to drive a yacht between two extra high walls (52m.) for about half an hour,
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Sailing under the Rion Andirrion bridge
The Rion Andirrion bridge - 09/03/2011 The Rion and Andirrion strait, only one mile wide, is the western entrance to the golf of Corinth. We crossed this strait last year on our way to Lefkas under the suspension cable bridge. We sailed straight on to the center for maximum depth. At this point the height
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Swimming with the Mediterranean dolphins
Between Myconos and Syros islands - 05/09/2010 Fortunately Greek islands provide the most safe waters for sailing in the world: No sharks, no pirates, not any other danger exists there. In this picture we had a nice swimming time in the area between Mykonos and Syros islands. We stopped the yacht in order to swim
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Baby on board !
Baby on board! Saronic - 18/06/2010 Me and my husband, we decided to spend a week sailing around Saronic during June 2010. We are familiar with the area as we have sailed there quite a lot of times, but we could not sail far away this year as we had one passenger more: our 8
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Fishing an octopus in the greek waters
Skiathos - 30/01/2010 There are several methods of catching an octopus. Last summer I've been in the Greek islands with my wife (Sporades). We have been on the sailing yacht drinking our evening coffee, while I noticed an octopus just a few inches under the water. I was very surprised by how easy this dummy
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Cyclades Sailing with a Catamaran Charter
April 2008 Serifos, Cyclades - 16/05/2008 We sailed from Athens on the 19th of April this year and visited Aigina, Kithnos, Siros, Tinos, Paros, Serifos, Kithnos again and Sounion on our way back to Athens. We had hired a boat through Paralos Sailing and Lefteris gave us a fabulous service. We celebrated the Greek Easter
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Competing in Cyclades
From Kithnos to Syros - 19/10/2007 During last October, we sailed for three weeks around Cyclades with s/y Antiope, a Bavaria 36. On October 18th, we left from Kithnos to Syros.The day was sunny but with a force 6 wind. In our way to Syros we met a Sun Odyssey 39 sailing to the same
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