Thursday 6 July Lefkada Town, Lefkas Island

Quite a successful day really.  We had a fairly leisurely morning and raised anchor at 9:45.  We didn’t have far to go, so we motored very slowly and put the fishing line out to see if we might catch something.  Of course we didn’t.  

As we approached Lefkada Town and were in the canal we saw other boats anchored outside the channel and as it was very hot we decided to stop for a swim, which made us all feel much better.  Then we went on to Lefkas marina.  We had not made our mind up where to go in town.  We had to go to the marina to refuel.  We were down to 40 litres of fuel and 60 miles to go to Corfu.  At the marina there is (unusually) a proper fuel pontoon, so we could fill up without taking a berth in the marina.  We did that and then I noticed that someone was walking around with camping gas bottles.  One of our bottles ran out yesterday so we were able to get a new one at half the price we have paid before. 

We all decided that we didn’t want to stay in the marina.  It is very expensive and a long way from the town.  So we motored into the town and were able to find a place on the town quay!  We tied up easily with the help of an adjoining boat owner.

Lunch on board and we are now pretty much out of fresh food.  So we take a long hot walk around the town trying to find the large supermarket we went to when we were here on our charter boats some years ago.  We had no luck despite trying to get directions from three or four people.  Eventually we wound up in a very small place with limited stock.  After that we went to three other shops to get all we needed and finally found the butcher’s shop open.  So we are now well provisioned to keep us going for at least 2-3 days.

Dinner out in town and then back to the boat to top up the water tank.  We find that the huge motor yacht next to us has attached to the hose.  Keith cheekily goes aboard their boat to find the crew, who disconnect.  It takes two 2 Euro shots to just top up our tank, using maybe 50 litres.  Heaven knows how the motor yacht is going to manage.


It is late now and we have an early start in the morning.

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