Ready Set Go
We had hoped to get back to Heron at the beginning of May. But long before we were due to leave, we received an email from Aegean. The flight to Athens was cancelled. It didn't matter so much now. We wouldn't be fully vaccinated before anyway. And then there was something else. We were supposed to be grandparents. Thirdly […]
The Ionian Islands… or some of them
When we woke up, Hurricane Ianos was gone. It had rumbled on on its course to the southeast. Before long it would pass the Peloponnese. From there it would again go out into the Mediterranean. When it was a few nautical miles off the coast of Libya, it would disband. At least that's what the weather models predicted. Now the sun was shining again from […]
Medic Ianos – prepare for the worst
36 hours to Ianos “It depends on how well we are protected from there” explained our English neighbor as he pointed towards one of the mountains on the small island of Meganisi. Like us, he had seen the message that Hurricane Ianos would reach us within 36 hours. “We were here during a storm a few years ago. I […]
Take it easy
The plan for this year's trip was to sail around the Peloponnese. Quietly. Stay in places we liked and spend the winter in one of them. But Covid-19 and not least the break-in at Heron put an end to that plan. But luckily plans can be changed. Our revised plan was to take it easy and [...]
Police and thieves
In the morning we walked the few hundred meters to the boatyard, where Heron had been standing in a steel stand after we had gone home to Denmark in October. We found the ladder the shipyard had put up for us. Set it up aft and went up. Our fenders, which we had provided with dog-like covers in the autumn, were on […]
A new normal?
"What I want to say tonight will have major consequences for all Danes," the Prime Minister began the press conference, which had been called at short notice. For the next few hours we sat with our eyes glued to the TV screen. Large parts of Denmark would be closed. Further restrictions or measures, as the Prime Minister put it, could not be ruled out. Wow. That […]
