D.I.S.C.O

Ben, Maria, Petros, Maria, Petros, Tom

This week has been a busy and fun one but we'll try to keep it short (we know you all have boring work to get back to)

Let us start with an apology for the day delay. We were anchored in Gerolimenos, on the Peloponnisos which turned out to be a town without internet, making Lloreda look like the Silicon Valley.
The week started off in Poros on Kefalonia with what begun as a really tedious sail South, which turned out to be really smooth and easy half way down.

A very efficient picture

Upon arrival in Zante on Zakinthos, we were greeted by Dino, who tried to charge us quite a bit for mooring in a tiny space, but after some jewing down and some charm on Tomas' part, the price was reduced and we ended up staying there for three nights. On our first night we met some locals at a bar, who we had over for coffee the following morning, one of whom we also went to the beach with later in the day. That evening we were invited over for supper by our lovely neighbours Mary (but when you say it you have to extend the A like a sheep would (I think the name is of Welsh origin))and Brian, and a picture was taken of the whole event by a beautiful passer-by who we should have totally invited over for a beer.

Capt. Grim the "bloody pervert"

We left Zante early on Thursday morning with a strong north westerly blowing us down to Pylos. We arrived after nightfall and were greeted by a line catching Aussie, Nick and his dog Scotty who turned out to be a delivery skipper (Nick, not the dog). We had planned on leaving two days later but unforeseen strong winds with gusts of 96knots kept us in port. Out of those strong winds came a yacht of young German sailors who we practically had to beg to come over for a beer aboard Crest Hawk that night. Staying in Pylos also gave us the chance to meet a couple, Ruth & Randell, two crazy Americans from Virginia on their way to London from China, where they had had their boat built (we think he is wanted for fraud).

As aforementioned we anchored in Gerolimenos last night and saw a rare giant sea turtle on our way to Kythira today. We would love to go into more detail but the internet cafe owner is making us feel nervous - think wants to close up for the night!

Tom's Top Tip: "Wearing swimming trunks 24/7 makes them smell"

Jin goes fishing

Ben's Best Bit: "The disco in the cockpit"

Sea turtle

Ben @ Gerolimenos

Cool cliffs init