Sunday - Gouvia to Sivota

Last night we decided not to head straight off but just to relax in the marina. In the evening we went to 'Harry's Taverna' - recommended by Alan from NSY. They had a duo playing live Greek music who were excellent.

The high point was a lively rendition of Nana Mouskouri's 'Never on a Sunday' which inspired some leathered English yachties to dance embarrassingly. This morning we all showered in the traditional 'black hole of Calcutta' shower block and, after breakfast, headed south past Corfu town. 

We are heading for Paxos, but planning few stops along the way. The weather is superb - but not much wind yet. It played the usual trick on us this morning - showing 7 knots in a helpful direction - but by the time we had the sails up it was 3 knots and coming exactly from our chosen heading. We are not bothered as we are told there is never a lot of wind in the morning.

We had a fabulous lunch at a little bay called Petriti - a whole sea bream for four washed down with the local white wine. It is hard to beat anchoring up and heading to lunch in your dinghy. After lunch we went to a place called Levkimmi on the advice of Rod - the pilot book man. Either it's gone downhill or Rod needs to go to Specsavers! They do an interesting line in four letter boats though.

We had to anchor offshore and take the dinghy into town as access is via a mile-long canal. As is traditional the outboard ran out of fuel on the way back!

It seems I may have spoken a bit too soon about our boat. The auto-pilot does not work. On Alan's advice we were trying to follow instructions from Raymarine to re-calibrate it by motoring around in circles. I hope nobody was watching from the shore! The instructions were in French which did not help. So we are going round to Sivota tomorrow morning, which is close to where we have anchored tonight, so that Alan can take a look at it. This always seems to happen. I suppose it is the nature of modern hi-tech boating. Not everything works all the time.