Yacht Fiona Blog Update 

Whilst our family and friends are struggling with the exceptionally cold “unseasonable” weather back in the UK we have opted to spend Christmas on the boat in Finike Marina in southern Turkey. Although we aren’t basking in continual sunshine here– we have had some nasty winter storms- we are enjoying a mild and often sunny time.

If we thought we were getting away from that Christmas pressure though, we were wrong, as we seem to have a constant stream of social commitments with organised Christmas parties, concerts, dinners and BBQs so we have had to abandon our winter boat jobs for the duration of the festive season!

Christmas lunch has been planned at the local Hotel Finike 2000 and nearly 50 livaboards will tuck into 5 large turkeys with all the trimmings.  Luckily we have twin seven year old boys living on a boat here who will keep all us yachties very focussed on the coming days and also remind us of our children and grandchildren back home that we are sorely missing.

People constantly ask us about our sailing plans for next season but so far we haven’t made any decisions. Our trip this spring and summer to the Greek islands of the Dodecanese proved to us that there are so many, interesting, beautiful and as yet unvisited, places for us to explore in this part of the Aegean that we could sail here for many years and only scrape the surface.

We particularly enjoyed our time in Nisos Marathos and this photo captures the essence of these special islands.

We would like to wish all our family and friends a very Happy Christmas and our best wishes for 2011.

We will be back in UK in March and hope to catch up with as many of you as possible!

 Before that, however, we are flying to Istanbul and Budapest -so watch out for more travel news from us!