Lucia 40 (2017)

Family cruise in the ionians

- noté le 06 août 2017

We arrived at gouvia marina by taxi (20 min, 20€ from Corfou). There is a supermarket outside of the marina which is much better and cheaper than the one inside. The boat was ready for 6pm so we quickly checked the boat, and left. The boat was only a few months old so in perfect conditions. We were ... Voir plus4 (my wife, 2 daughters aged 7 and 8 and I). The next 2 weeks were spent to explore the ionians islands that are each different. In the second half of July it was easy to find moorings in good weather but when the wind started to be strong, it was better to arrive in the morning to catch a good spot. There are a lot of flotillas not always polite, sometimes noisy and reckless. We liked lakka in paxos, kioni frikes and Stavros in ithaca, ay Eufemia in Kefalonia all small ports with good restaurants and very nice people. We went to zakyntos but it doesn't worth the trip, too crowded too far. I am not a very experienced wind sailor, and my wife isn't at all so I never raised the sails and went by the engine that were very silent in 2 weeks I used around 300 l. The waiting line at the gazole station is quite a problem we spent more than 1 hour in a very disorganized queue with mega yachts going in and out of the marina.