We are on our first week in Greece, we made landfall at Katakolo on the west side of the Peloponnese, after a fabulous 3 day passage from Malta. So far we visited Ancient Olympia where the first Olympic Games started around 760 BC and lasted for 1200 years. The site is amazing and even though it has been ravaged by fire and an earthquake you can still see the base of most of the temples and the actual stadium. The anchorage at Katakolo is excellent in most weather as was the second stop just for one night at Killini, the one at Navpaktos was a little rolley but the medieval harbor and castle make Navpaktos a place to see. Today we moved on another 13 nm and anchored at the island of Trizinion, this is a very good all round anchorage with excellent protection from all directions. The bottom is tall weeds over mud so you may need a couple of tries to make the anchor dig in, nice restaurants ashore serving very nice fried fresh anchovies and baked feta cheese. We may stay here for a couple more days we shall see what the weather will be like first.
This blog is intended for those interested in our travels on-board our self built sailing boat the SV Maltese Falcon. We hope to keep it updated as much as we can, keeping in mind that we do not have internet at hand all the time.
