Itea
We are really getting to be fair weather sailors or else we just love every place that we are once we get there. After taking everything apart again in Trezonia, Greece which is about 2/3 of the way down or up the Gulf of Patras, we finally started again for the Corinth Canal. After about an hr. the wind was blowing 30+ on our bow, so we turned around and double timed it back to Trezonia which we really like anyhow. We again put Dorky Dinghy in the water and headed for our favorite water hole. Clunk! Jerry started Dorky up in gear which he never does. Clunk went my head into Grace's bottom and the rest of me followed. He's subliminating something. Afterward, I couldn't open my mouth. We won't even go into that! And to top it all off, our favorite place for fried calamari was closed.
The next day we decided to try again. We had a beautiful day of motor sailing into Itea, a wonderful marina with electric and water points. None of which works, but we found a water spout close by to jerry can. This morning I carried 50 gal. of water so I could eat my sugar doughnut and my croissant with a hotdog baked in the middle with no caloric intake.
It is blowing up gales in the Aegean, highly undesirable weather. We are sidetied in a great spot so we will not move until probably the Olympics are over so we can find places to roost as we meet up with the foul weather. We are a $1.30 bus ride from Delphi where we probably will spend 2 days. The museum there just reopened after a 2 year renovation. We are just a restful bus ride from Athens. We will take the bus in-explore for as many hrs. as we want, see some Olympic venues if we can figure everything out on their new metro-tram system, then return on the bus.
Today, Jerry had his head in Bessie's insides again. If anyone can tell us why we have hardly any raw water exiting, a low temperature, a little smoke, everything clean except the raw water has some black in it and everything seems? to be running OK, but we think something is wrong, please advise. Jerry has taken everything apart that Calder advises and everything seems clean. She runs cooler than she had run in a long time. As soon as we get to Kemer, we will have their diesel mechanic check her out. She's been working a long time with no vacation or am I talking about me?
Hope everyone is well. I am very homesick, but the stars are so stupendous where they don't have to do battle with artificial lights, the mountains are so staggering in their torturous depths, the light and colors are so blinding in their intensity that I try not to wish the days away.
xoxoxox
- August 18, 2004