After flying back into Santorini with our next guests, Lily & George, we made the last ferry of the day to meet with Jacques and Mossy Joe in Ios. The view from the road down to the harbour across the Caldera just after sunset was incredible.

A late night supper but so happy to be back on board and await the arrival of our next guest, Jeanne, the following morning.

Jeanne had some interesting experiences with the ferries. So thrilled to have landed early in Mykonos and hot footed it to the harbour, jumped on a ferry about to leave for Ios which was nearly two hours earlier than the ferry we expected her on. However, after sitting on the ferry for 15 minutes not going anywhere there was some excitement and noises which indicated that a foreign object had ‘run into the boat!’ Time pushed on with no sign of any ferry movement or any news on the issue that caused the delay and after another half hour the next scheduled ferry to Ios was ready to depart with Jeanne still sitting on the defunct one! There was a mad scramble to get off the non moving ferry and to access the one that was working, however, the crew would not allow anyone off until they had refunded the passengers! With seconds to spare, Jeanne made it onto the working ferry and on her way to us in Ios!

That night the crew was complete and a more substantial evening meal was enjoyed!

Our first full day together was full of inflatable fun in the Bay!

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And Jeanne and Lily had fun out of the water compiling a list of the daily activities for the coming week! Poor George!

Next stop was Sikinos, where we had been before on the night when they had a whole island power cut! It was nice to be back again and to have food for dinner that we could see!

The following day, the wind dictated that we head back to Folegandros which I was very happy about. It is such a beautiful place and I was thrilled to be able to share it with L & G & J.

Having two nights in one place allows us to explore more that just the town and the port. Us adventurous girls decided a hike was in order to the small chapel we could see from the bay.

Jacques took us with the dinghy to the small beach where we would start our trek. The small beach turned out to be a favourite haunt of naturalists so we had to avert our eyes as we traipsed past them and felt quite conspicuous as unlike the other users of the beach, on arrival we had to put more clothing on!

The view was superb and we got to play “Spot Mossy Joe” again!

Later that day Jacques and I headed back to the Hora on the bus to do a food shop – they had not one but two (very small!) grocery shops to choose from! To abate the anticipation of our quest we found a cute cocktail bar in which to prepare ourselves!

We also stumbled upon preparations for a wedding party. So beautiful and intimate.

Our last night in Folegandros saw us having dinner in one of the small tavernas around the harbour. Jeanne and Lily made some new friends!

And so back to Santorini and our next adventure! Very excited about this!

More soon!

Love and Hugs

Tracey

PS Incredible news!! The winch is in Athens!!!