Nidri Lefkas



Tranquil Bay, Nidri

18th August We are now anchored in Tranquil Bay near the very lively resort of Nidri on the east coast of Lefkas. We’ve managed to creep deep into the wooded bay away from the noise and the swell from passing boats, so now we have the best of both worlds, a sheltered, quiet anchorage which is a ten minute row from shore-side facilities.

19th August We have very fond memories of holidays in Nidri. We learned to sail a yacht here back in 1999, and it was the starting point for our first flotilla holiday a year later. Today we took the dinghy over to town and found that very little has changed. The quay is still jammed with tavernas and bars touting for custom and the view out to sea is still beautiful.




View across the anchorage


20th August Today we rowed to the shore of the bay and walked out to the promontory where there’s a memorial to Wilhelm Dorpfeld, a famous German archaeologist who tried to prove that Homer’s epics were based on historical facts. Dorpfeld compared several passages from the Odyssey to the actual geographical location of Lefkas, and proposed that the bay of Nidri was in fact the mythical Ithaca, home of Odysseus. Needless to say, he has become a bit of folk hero in Nidri!



Roadside chapel at Vathi



Quayside at Vathi

22th August We’re back on Meganisi, this time in the sleepy village of Vathi. This is the ‘capital’ of Meganisi, though there’s little more here than a handful of tavernas and a few small stores.

Today we received an email from our French friend Jean, who sailed across Biscay with us. He and his wife have taken nine months off work to sail around the Mediterranean with their three young children. They will be in Zakynthos this weekend so we'll be leaving tomorrow to start the three day sail down there to meet them.