Just chilling

The boys went home on Thursday August 29th and we were on our own for the first time in two months, which took some getting used to. We did the final loads of washing, filled up with water and left the heat and noise of Aegina town on Friday morning, motoring round the north of Angistri (no wind) to the beautiful anchorage in the southwest corner of the island. In the afternoon we had it almost to ourselves, but by Saturday morning it was absolutely packed with yachts, motor yachts and gin palaces coming down from Athens for the weekend,

though it was still remarkably peaceful (once we had asked our neighbour to turn down his radio, which had been blasting out the most god awful modern Greek crooning.
On Sunday we tried to find our way round to the next bay through the woods,

but the path petered out, so we went round in the dinghy to Aponisi, which had a cafe and taverna, packed for the weekend.
Most boats left on Sunday evening, so by Monday morning we had the bay more or less to ourselves again.

We motored down to Vathi, on the Methana peninsular (again no wind). Usually Vathi is very busy, but this time there were only a couple of boats in when we arrived. We made a mess of anchoring - the first time we had not let out enough chain and the anchor just came up through the soft mud, the second time the chain caught itself around a couple of big rocks, so Simon dived to clear it and we settled in next to Lillibelle, with its all-women Scottish crew of Christine, Margaret and Elaine.

 We had a light lunch and dinner in the taverna To Vathi, since we were using their wifi, but went on for pudding (galaktobureki) and drinks in Athena's taverna at the other end of the quay, with our new Scottish friends and Theo, who runs trips up to the volcano, getting to bed very late. We were woken about 3 in the morning by three big bumps. Lin went up on deck to find that our neighbours had also been woken by it. We decided in the end that it must have been a turtle coming in to explore the harbour and bumping its shell on our hulls.
On Tuesday morning we said goodbye to Lillibelle

and got back down to our odd jobs of cleaning and mending ready for Dave and Sue's arrival next Monday.