On count down....

Two of the four Harley's we have had next door.

Start of the regatta rally on Monday, Poros Bay.

 When we arrived back in Vournikas last week we had four German couples staying in Tree's house next door complete with two big vans a trailer and four Harley Davidson bikes which were extremely pampered.  They seem to have had a great holiday   the place was full of laughter and burping all week but they didn't bother us in the slightest.

It is nice to hear people having fun and enjoying their own company.  They left on Thursday morning with two bikes on the trailer and the other two inside one of the vans and it's now very quiet!

Monday saw the start of the annual Southern Ionian  Regatta Rally and we witnessed the start in Poros bay.  I counted thirty three starters although I may have been wrong as they are all milling to and fro and it's easy to miscount.

Some of the boats in Sivros for the end of the regatta.

The rally was over four legs and finished on Thursday in Sivota with coinciding with the end of the regatta.  Tony, Tree and Mike's boat Jungle (which is the one which I have crewed on several times, although not on this occasion) Came second on the first day, First on days two and three and sixth on the last day, but despite the last day's miserable failure managed to gain the overall rally winners title.  This is a fitting end as Jungle is now up for sale.

When the average age of the crew was sixty seven years old this result is a really amazing achievement, and to top it all they beat Rod Heikell, the author of a miriad local pilot and seafairing books, into second place.  Well done you guys.


You never know next year we may take part in the rally, albeit with no expectation of getting anything other than the booby prize!

Looking from "No Problems" Spiridoulas over the quay.

We are now just waiting for Monday with respect to our boat.  The paperwork has been through the port police in Corfu and is as we write this, heading down to Lefkas in preparation for the big event, CAN'T WAIT!!!!  (like a kid at Christmas)

And the band played on!