Back home in the Ionian islands

One night in Zackynthos was all we planned and one was enough. We moved north to Big Vathi on Ithica for three nights. One night at anchor in Ormos Aetou outside of Vathi then two nights on anchor in the harbour itself. After dropping the anchor and settling in we promptly got asked by a messenger of the port police ( they haven't got a boat or cannot afford to run one so they send messages with locals in RIBs ) to move further up the harbour as a big ship was coming in. We obliged begrudgingly, bloody nerve !! Later that afternoon a huge and very beautiful sailing yacht morred stern to onto the fuel pontoon. Very unusual, we never seen that before. It was Spanish flagged and had lots of uniformed crew. It drew a lot of attention and a small crowd formed at the fuel berth, but were kept at a distance by men in plain clothes. We formed the opinion that it was the King of Spain. He is married to a greek lady and is fond of sailing apparently, and an old fella from the yacht went past us very sedately on his SeaDo with an old bird on the back and Susan says it looked like him. So thats it, it was the King of Spain and his woman. After that excitement we had to leave, we couldn't take any more. We headed for Sivota ( again ) and the delights of Yannas restaurant. We needed the fuel injectors testing as they were seeping fuel and the gasket on the sender unit in the fuel tank was also seeping after being replaced following the fuel filtering escapade. The injectors were sent to Levkas for testing and found to be fine so they were put back in. No diesel leaking...hurrah !! The gasket however was still seeping slightly so a new one was ordered. So now we felt like we were back home in the ionian islands after our trip to the gulf and peleponesse, so we just cruised and pottered and bay hopped. Dave n Sue of Scath came back out from old blighty and we joined up again. Beach BBQs, swimming, snorkelling, just chilling out !!.
Brian, me old mucker from work, and his beloved, Rachel joined us in early September. We got on the Neilson pontoon in Nidri to prepare for their arrival. They had booked an apartment on Nidri waterfront ( where Gordon n Pat stayed ). The first night they stayed in it and appeared the next morning for brekky covered in red lumps where the mossies had enjoyed a blood letting during the night. Oh dear, they'd left the windows open during the night and the mossies had accepted the invite. Anyway, that didn't spoil things, we had a cracking week with them on board. The weather was ace and we took them around some of our fave places. Sivota ( again ), Kalamos,  Abelike Bay, Spartachori then back to Vliho. We hope they enjoyed it, I'm sure they did.