by Mary Greensmith | Feb 26, 2020 | Living, Winter
Overwintering on a boat in Samos Marina, on the beautiful Greek island of Samos could be quite a lonely affair if it wasn’t for the live-aboard community, let’s refer to them as the ‘exuberant partakers of the odd libation’…. so one naturally forms, The Sunday...
by Mary Greensmith | Feb 26, 2020 | Greece, Living, Port Authorities
With all of unknown surrounding Brexit, many UK sailors have been exploring all of the different ways in which we might or might not be affected by Brexit. Before we left the UK, we were approached by several doom and gloom merchants who felt that there was already...
by Mary Greensmith | Dec 6, 2019 | Living, Sailing, Winter, Working on Board
I have just arrived back from a great trip back to the UK. I had a fantastic time visiting my mum right up in the north of Scotland and my son and his family right down in Kent in the south east of England. Arriving back in Samos I realised I needed my sunglasses...
by Mary Greensmith | Nov 10, 2019 | Greece, Islands, Living, Winter
Arriving in Leros, we made the preparations to get the boat lifted out of the water so our hole could be mended. We tried to organise things so we wouldn’t be out of the water for too long but we knew they would need to dry the boat before fixing it. They...
by Mary Greensmith | Oct 4, 2019 | Greece, Islands, Living, Sailing
We have had another fabulous 2 weeks. We were actually sailing in the right direction with the wind behind us, not too many waves and generally great conditions for gentle sailing. Fair Winds and following seas on the nail. We juggled sailing with work days, we...
by Mary Greensmith | Sep 15, 2019 | Greece, Living
We have had such a great week with the family. Dominic and Robyn and their two children Florence and Freddie had hired a beautiful villa in Alonissos and managed to persuade their good friends Sarah and George to come along too. This was quite a good shout I...
