Greece

So we are back home. Public Wifi is not that great in Greece that I could post during our holiday, so here is a summary.

 

 

As Always, son #3 had his birthday during our holiday. I took him for breakfast at the local bakery while they decorated the boat and prepared the cake.

Went in search of a boat wreckage that was supposed to be on Zakyntos, and we found it. Great day with a rented small boat. We visited the blue caves and the wreckage.

 

Zakyntos is famous for its turtles, but we only saw them in Argostoli. They are so fun to watch and they are quiet curios.

 

The waves can get quit big on Myrtos beach and the boys just loved them.

 

Greek coffee and icecream... they are so delicious...

 

 

 

Yes the water is so blue, the picture doesn´t do it justice. It is almost unnatural.

 

This year we also saw bigger octopus. Very fun to watch and to see how strong they are.

 

Caves in Sami, not big, also not the most beautiful that I saw, but a relief to get into if it so hot.

 

And yes, most of the days there was a red flag, so no swimming...

 

But we had a great holiday.

Greece

 

So we left very early this year. ALmost immediately after the boys had their summerholiday. 

Greece was what we expected, hot, but much more so than we expected in July. No money... Most ATMs didnt work and there were long lines at the banks, but we were expecting that, so it was OK.

 

 

They boys had a great time, swimming, snorkling, annoying oneanother... even to get back on board...

 

 

This year we had a whole menagerie of blow  up animals... I bought new ones, never realizing the onces we bought last year where still on he boat...

 

Home away from home... The Midnight stroller.

 

This year we had a selfiestick with us. It was used on all occasions on the boat. But it gave us some great new angles.

DH on the helm...

 





 

Family pic.

Son #1 found some fish skull... This was not even the biggest one he found, he found 2 more that were bigger. SO I am wondering what is swimming underneath us if we are snorkling...

 



 

This year I also invested in an underwater camera. Last year we had the disposabe ones and the development cost the same as the camera, so we had great fun with the camera, although only close ups are in focus.

 



 I swam in this school of fish, they circled the boat. The photo doesnt do the experience justice. It was so great to swim with the fish and they stayed with you.

 

Son #3 also swam very well and also his snorkling improved dramatically.

 



 

And yes, now he also dares jumping from the boat.

 

 

And of course his 7th birthday, which we celebrated with cake and dinner in a local harbor. We had to hunt down the Island to find some vanilla cake, but we managed.

 

The jumping of things must be in he boys, all I do is checking if it is deep enough to jump into the water as we had a bad experience in the family wiith jumping in to shallow water. 

 

We could snorkle into some caves, It was kind of eerie, not my kind of thing, but the boys loved it. Afterwards, we rented a boat and checked out some caves with the boat.

 



 

And all good things come to an end. The holiday is over and we are back home where the temperatures are a lot lower, but also nice...

 



We had our portions of frozen yoghurt with honey and nuts, greek coffee, fredo cappucino, fried squid and other wonterful things. Yet another great holiday.

Greece

We are back from our summer holiday in Greece, we went sailing with DHs parents, whom have a sailboat. As you can see, the weather was great.

Last year we saw Dolphins, but this year thay really came close to the boat, and they were big... Much bigger than I ever thought .

 

We rented a car and discovered Corfu and found some really nice places, beaches.

 

And offcourse son #3 turned six during the holiday. He wanted a cake, so we went to local bakery, but they didnt have any, so we went to search for a plain cake... And we found some. So he had a great birthday on the boat.

 

In one of the harbors, there was a cat family, mum with three kittens. They were really hungry, so after feeding the table scraps, son # 1 went fishing for the kittens and he caught 23 fishes... Those by the time we left the next morning, the kittens and mum were well fed.

 

We had great weather, but on our way back from the Mainland to Corfu, we encountered a storm, so it was quite the trip back.

But all well, that ends well, so we had a great day at the swimming pool on our last day in Greece. Great holiday, sun, sea, great food, we had a wonderful time.