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Early spring 2005…
Red Poppies
and west winds!
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MARMARIS
After a very wet turkish winter …
…not only irrigated with water…
With, amongst other things
MUSIC
ENCOUNTERS
wifi, power cuts and one mast down
A farewell to Tyfoun
(Thanks to Roger and Anne
for their message of life…
Welcome to junior for the
summer! We’re impatiently
waiting!)
And alternately grey and
bright blue days…
We eventually left our wintering
harbour leaving behind many people
we met and will hopefully meet
again somewhere, that became
like a winter family we got used
to see around…
Heading for Rhodes – under a
shower of hail !- with Let it be
on our side and Gwenvidig
expecting us there.
As a goodbye, we spent a few days in Rhodes with
Jo&Michel, who have during this winter been
our partners in music nights, emotions and pizzas!
We sailed a few days more with Stéphanie
& Matthieu: music exchanges, apiculture lessons, some climbing
and spinnaker races…it all felt like a summer holliday
after a long winter!
First stopovers with Gwenvidig and very merciful winds:
Symi & Nyssiros, …a volcanic island
The last day with Stéphanie & Matthieu, spent between
sulphur, craters, green, wild flowers, and
the story of the life of bees…
Surrounded by an explosion of fragrances and colours
After that started for us a long wait for favourable winds to
head west…but as soon as Gwenvidig had gone
Planned route
Made route
the winds blew with medium to strong force from the westsouthwest and only changed to blow with strong gale force
from the southeast. No other choice than to adapt the program
– the wind decides, not us!- so we took the Corinth Canal option,
disappointed to miss the southern Peloponnese.
Disappointed at the idea of going through known places again
… but soon amazed by the view of these unknown, spring-like,
fresh and green Cyclades covered with flowers …
Nyssiros, Naxos, Syros and last but not least Kythnos…
Just to put us back in our place,
because we thought we were blasé and
fed up with Greece and its islands, they
decided to astound us with colours and
landscapes, preserved villages and low
season peacefulness.
Once again, the bike appeared to be best way to discover…
…amongst other things, an old mule path, apparently unknown
even to most of the inhabitants of Kythnos themselves,
considering the number of people we asked and the time
needed to find it!
Another unusual yet daily view in Kythnos, a ballet of cargo ships
and ferries in a bay barely large enough to
welcome even only one of them…
The cargo leaves as the first ferry enters the bay
A never-ending dance of mastodons
filled with Athenians, the most
frequent visitors on this islands where
international tourism hardly comes.
The first ferry has just about enough time to vomit its passengers…
before the next ferry enters the bay
In surroudings where the sea and the sky seem to have come to an
agreement so that even ferries would look beautiful
These were the first images and discoveries of Miss Terre
and crew in the early spring. We hope you have
enjoyed it as much as we have …
and that this was only a preview of what is coming, heading west!
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