After a fantastic summer in England we are getting ready to return to the slightly higher temperatures of Kos. We have had a brilliant time and the last ten weeks have flown by. We were home for a week before flying off again (whoever thought that was a good idea?) to Majorca to celebrate our friend Bob's retirement and had a great four days, despite watching our hired car being towed away. We have celebrated the arrival of my Senior Railcard with a lovely lunch with girlfriends, another party at home with family and friends, trips to the theatre in London, Heather's 30th barn dance party, Henry's 1st birthday Mad Hatter's tea party, a lovely wedding and catching up with new and old friends. We are going back to the boat for a rest before it all begins again on our return with another wedding, birthdays and lots more. Beginning to think that this is sounding like one of those Christmas round robin letters so think I'll stop now.
As mentioned already temperatures in Kos at the moment are warmer than here at around 30 degrees and I have persuaded (perhaps not the word he would use) Bruce that we should spend the first two nights in an hotel especially as Sequel is out of the water and it will be as least as hot inside the boat as out and also because she doesn't go back into the water until Thursday. Actually had a little bit of a paddy and if anyone is wondering where my granddaughter gets her foot stamping from ............ It is also extremely windy in the Aegean at the moment and we are really hoping that by Thursday the wind will have settled down at least a bit.
We will then have a few days to get ready for our visitors, Sue and Andy, and then we are hoping to discover more of the Dodecanese.
The Dodecanese consists of 12 larger islands and over 150 smaller islands and islets in the eastern Aegean, close to Turkey's Western Anatolian coast. Many of the islands can therefore be considered to belong geographically to Asia, though ethnically all are very Greek.
We have already visited Simi and Nisyros, albeit briefly, and intend to travel north to Samos, which is not part of the Docadanese but in the Northern Aegean, and then work our way back to Patmos and Leros. This is, as always, completely dependent on the wind.
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