Passing through Greece, nearly in Turkey

Despite conflicting weather forecasts we decided to leave Malta and just take whatever the weather gods threw at us. This has turned out to be a good decision so far. We left the small island of Gozo (Malta) at around midnight on Monday and today (Friday) we entered Greek waters have passed Kythera, the first of the the Greek Islands when approaching from the west.

We had excellent winds and good sailing for the first 2 days, recording some of our fasted times ever! Even when the wind dropped off a bit we have been able to sail all the way, today we even flew the spinnaker. We passed through a big electrical storm which gave us a bit of a fright, as it has been so long since we have been near any lightening. We went to code red and things got put in the oven, but the worst of the storm passed by us in about an hour then the stars came back out again:)

We are currently north of Crete in the Aegean Sea, having traversed the Ionian Sea, and will carry on through Greece and head for the Turkish mainland and Marmaris, which all going well, we should see in about 3 days time.