We left Loutra on September 26 which left us about 4 weeks to get back to the Ionian sea on the West side of Greece and more specifically...

Astros was lovely, however after 5 days there on the town quay, we were beginning to go a little stir crazy. The unlimited water supply...

At the end of our last blog, we had just dropped off Jez in Brindisi, Italy. That very same night, we sailed for Corfu and checked into...

Our last week in Croatia We made it back to Trogir (near Split airport in Croatia) in plenty of time to pick up Jeremy. There was even...

(This is a big one sorry) Venice was never part of our master plan, we'd been there a few time before we purchased NJ, but here we were...

On May 19 we arrived back in Montenegro to commence our 2024 sailing season. As we had done in previous years, we had planned to do as...

We finished our last blog riding out yet another Meltemi, in Olympic Marina, South East of Athens.  We had given NJ a good clean (which...

After our stressful and diabolical sail through the Gulf of Corinth, we were more than ready, the next morning to make our way through...

We returned to Corfu from Albania to pick up more crew in Sue and John. We would be dropping them off in Athens in a little over 3 weeks,...

We only saw the far Southern coast of Albania (within the close vicinity of Saranda), which is a very small sample of this large and...

Corfu Preparation for our 30 hour sail south to Corfu was less than perfect. We would be checking out early in the morning from Bar...

We only had a few more weeks in Montenegro before heading South to Greece, and there were still quite a few places we hadn’t seen yet....

Croatia has the largest yacht charter fleet in the world and is equally popular with full time cruisers. This is in part due to its...

We flew from Melbourne to Tivat, Montenegro with stopovers in Dubai and Belgrade. It was a very long haul, however we were delighted to...

After dropping Sarah off at Catania Airport then navigating Sicilian public transport back to Nova Jean in Syracuse, we decided we'd had...

A new crew member in Sarah: After many hugs and saying our goodbye's we dropped Tayla and Jez off at Naples Central Station where...

(Ponza, Ischia, Capri, Positano, Amalfi, Pompei & Herculaneum) PONZA Having Tayla and Jeremy onboard with us for two weeks was the...

Sardinia is a short sail off the southern tip of Corsica and it was here in the Northern town of Olbia that we would be meeting up with...

We had a few weeks spare to explore the island of Corsica before we would be meeting up with friends in Northern Sardinia. We hadn't done...

We sailed overnight from Cinque Terre to the Island of Elba. It was hot and there was very little wind, so we stopped in the middle of...

Cinque Terre (The Five Lands) is a group of five small villages built on the shores of the mountainous area North of Porto Venere. They...

Leaving Villafranch was a little sad, but we needed to get moving on to Italy and ultimately Rome to drop our guests off. Portofino is...

Our 24 hour crossing to Saint Tropez Started out very uncomfortable with swell coming from multiple directions. We didn't get the sails...

After picking up our guests in Palma and giving them a quick tour of our favourite anchorages on the island of Mallorca, it was time to...