Ithaca – Kefalonia and a broken rib Leaving the “urban life” of Vathy Ithaki, we felt the need for a few completely uneventful days. No spectacle, “casino” or “bordell” – as our French friend Valerie so charmingly puts […]
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Rivercafe almost sunk in Vasiliki Our week began stormily and almost ended in disaster. Let’s get started: with the strong winds in Vlycho, we fortunately had enough space to the boats anchored next to us and none of
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Summer in Lefkada It’s finally summer. The days are long and warm, we’re hitting 30 degrees every day and we’ve unpacked the light blankets for the nights again. Even the sea is a reasonable 25 degrees and we
Sailing in Paxos One downside of travelling is that you have to leave places you have grown fond of. We enjoyed our time in Corfu and didn’t really feel like leaving. But when you arrive at the next
Corfu and the Ionian Sea What a country. What wonderful people. We’ve been in Greece for two weeks now and we felt right at home from the very first hour. The people are incredibly friendly, natural and relaxed.
Erikousa and the north of Corfu The wait for good sailing weather had kept us in Montenegro for over a week longer than planned. We kept downgrading our wish for good sailing weather to ‘not bad conditions’. The
Montenegro: no wind in the Adriatic The Rivercafe is ready to set sails again. In three days ashore in the shipyard, Rivercafe was made ready for the season again. The port saildrive was fixed and the keel was
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Back in Montenegro Returning to a boat after a long time feels like returning as a 13-year-old to your first girlfriend after the summer holidays. You never know. We knew from the remote monitoring that the electricity and
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Offseason: Egypt This is our penultimate non-sailing trip before we return to the Rivercafe and the new season begins. This trip took us to Egypt, on the Red Sea, 100 nm across from Saudi Arabia. Our first visit
