Monday 29th July 2024
Heading to Mytilini Marina in 10 knots from the NE so motor sailing, in part to listen to the engine.
11:00 back on good old Pontoon C, Lily is off like a flash. Very busy now, full of Turkish boats most of which now use them as caravans and get the ferry to & fro Turkey. 2 dogs and 1 cat for Lily to “get involved” with, LOL.
Mytilini harbourside, a favourite haunt & walk.
Murals by night outside “Nan”
Its nice to see all our friends, Zoi, Vivi , Anastassia from the marina and Myrsini theVet although the visit to have a suspected lump on Lily checked out was a disaster. Myrsini at her dozy best !
These being the latter’s latest rescues.
Garden at the vet surgery
We were to have 15 days here exploring old haunts & restaurants and I completed a full service on the engine, all filters, bled, injectors checked for tightness. On the 5th August we took the boat on an engine test up to Panaagoudia & back for an hour and a half and 7 miles. All seems OK ?
Mytilini Fortress from boat on engine trial run to Panagoudia
Panoramic one including the town
Thursday 8th August 2024
We hired a bike and headed of for the day to Kolonis, Molivos & Sykamenea. This was the 1st time we had visited Sykamenea , passed it plenty of times by sail though. It was very pretty, if a tad touristy.
Kolonis on the other big lagoon on Lesvos for a coffee stop
Molivos , another coffee stop
and finally Sykamenea
Tuesday 13th August 2024
We are now headed back to Scala Loutra to await a suitable window to start going back south again. I see from the log it was a lovely sail underway just over 4 hours and just about all of it sailing.
Thursday 15th August eating on board in Scala Loutra, blowin a hoolie , the night before our departure.
Given that there is talk of this possibly being our last year in Greece. This indeed may be the last visit to lovely Lesvos. Who would have thought I would have said that after my comments on our first visit to Mytilini all those years ago before Covid.
Me:
“ Mm!….. I’m not sure about this place”
Louise:
“ Give it time, you will love it”
Well, she was right !
