After a tense night anchored on a lee shore we up'd anchor and sailed to Gaios. There we found a quaint village, went for beautiful walks in the olive groves...

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The Beaufort scale tonight is a force 9. It's 55 miles per hour winds.

Okay it's 4 o'clock

in the morning. I think we're through the

worst of it now.

One of the buildings I was using as a

transit switch its lights out at about

half past three which completely

confused me so I had a bit of a panic.

The anchor chain seems to have held

The wind's changed direction a bit so the

swell's not so bad. So I think we're gonna

be all right. So I think a cup of tea and

get my sleeping bag.

I'll stay on deck for now. Might as well see the rest of the night out on deck.

Everybody sleep alright last night? No! It

was really stormy and I could hear the

wave.. really big waves splashing on my cabin.

So the next day the weather calmed a bit so he could go

around the corner and we went into a

little inlet called Gaios on the same

island of Paxos. It's really pretty.

We went stern to. We had a few problems

getting the anchor down and we had to

sort of do it again because it wasn't

holding again. We were really relieved we

didn't go there the night before because

it wouldn't have been good the night

before; it was better to stay where we

were. But it was a lovely town and we got

the bikes out. My oldest daughter went

cycling with dad.

We've come to a new place and we're looking around to see if there are any good shops or cafes.

And now we're going along the sea because over there is a dead end and a place where the ferries

come in and out. And it's quite a nice path.. like a winding path.

I was a really nice place to stay for a

few days. We went for a walk in the olive

groves right to the top of the hill and

the kids loved that. We just talk as we

do it; it was good to get our legs

working and good to spend time with them.

Yeah we even found a handbag at the

bottom of the sea so my middle son dove

down to try and retrieve it and we

couldn't wait to see what was inside - we

thought there might be some money and

some treasure but when we opened it up

it turned out that was just a whole bunch

of shells. The other thing about that

place in Gaios - it was a town quay so we we only really expected to pay about 10 euros

but the authorities came around and we

got charged about 35 euros. It was really

expensive and it's not something we can

afford to pay every night because

we're on a budget. Yeah we're leaving Paxos and going to Parga again.

Paxos was really quaint.

There were lovely squares and

little alleyways we are cycling down.

We had a few traumas like the washing

machine flooded the boat.

Right just got the washing machine going

and oh yeah and our anchor wouldn't bike as well - that was pretty bad - and we got charged loads

of money it was like 35 euros for one

night which we can't afford to pay that.

So luckily she didn't come round the next

night so we've got two nights for 35 euros

which was a bit better. So we had a lovely walk up the hill and

a lovely two days actually - two days of

good home schooling as well

kids have really enjoyed it haven't you kids? No!

We're going to Parga which is over there

somewhere.

The kids are more confident on the boat - they want to move around the boat a

bit more so we've kind of got the

lifejackets out and the

lifelines so they can clip on they can move

about the boat quite comfortably.

As we've been going along I've been trying

to fix the kiddie netting on which

just makes it extra safe really on the

boat. We're still trying to work out what

safety measures we're gonna use really.

Yeah that's probably a whole blog in itself.

When we anchor down we've got

dinghy that gets us to shore and back

and the dinghy has been repaired. There

was quite a few things wrong with it.

Some of those things repair but not

everything could be repaired so it still

leaks quite a bit; we have to keep

pumping it out. It's not the most

reliable dinghy at the moment - it'll be

nice one day maybe to replace it. We're also

you know, just adjusting - this is a whole

new life and it's different for

everybody - we've all got to adjust and

even though you know you could describe

it as paradise in some ways it's still

you know a whole new life they

need to adjust to.

Right, just get to the point Woody!