Patmos again

Sunday 2^nd July 2017

We headed back to Patmos. It looks like the weather patterns will dictate our cruising area until September will be Patmos, Leros, Samos, Arki. It does make a pleasant change from long passages, albeit there will be some required at the end of the summer when we return to Syracuse.

It was as expected a downwind sail under foresail only to arrive back in almost the same anchor spot we left in Ay Yeoryios. We stayed here for 7 nights with the help of our water tanker Nicolas, who arrived on the 5^th this time with his Sister’s friend, Kathy and partner on board (I think he is following us). He has a water maker on board and he fills our auxiliary plastic tanks for us which saves us the necessity of going into a harbour for water quite as often.

They were only staying one night as his visitors only had one week’s holiday.

Kathy & Michelle

The following Saturday 8^th we moved a massive 2.8 miles to another bay closer to Skala Patmos callled Ormos Aspri. We anchored just off a very chic and expensive tavern that played jazz music in the evenings. We stayed until Wednesday 12^th. We are getting used to this anchoring lark.

Windy move to Aspri Bay

Aspri Bay

The views of St John’ monastery from here were fantastic as were the views of the cruise ships that anchored about half a mile away from us. However the main reason for this anchorage was that we could walk in to Scala Patmos if we wanted. It was a bit of a hill and about 15 to 20 minutes but Scala Patmos is very pretty and bohemian, very different from what I remember in the 80’s.

St John’s Monastery in Chora and the cruise ships

Full moon rising

The walk in to ”town”  Scala Patmos  ……… and back !

We renewed our Dekpa here with the Greek Coastguard which theoretically will allow us to cruise Greece for a further 5 years if we wished, however it’s looking like the Brexit shambles might put paid to that well before then, we’ll see. “Cigar Cigar” (“Slowly Slowly”) as they say in Greek.