Grabbing a spare morning to update you all :) These past two weeks I have not been instructing. I said bye to my last clients on 4th May. Two weekends ago I helped with the flotilla turnaround at a town called Plataria, which is on the mainland of Greece, east of Corfu. My job for the day was to fill the water tanks on all the boats. Which was perfect after the base manager was behind the bar the night before. On Monday 9th I did a day's tuition with a coup...

WHERE TO START... I know - The Pot Smashing in Corfu Town, 10 days ago. It was awesome. We did indeed muster at 8am with our hired bicycles. It was the earliest anyone had probably got up on a day off. The pot smashing was at 11am and it does not take 3 hours to ride into town, more like 25 minutes. We started early as we went into town via every bakery and shop and stopped for a chat and a drink. We stood in a street and at 11am on the dot suddenly every...

T-minus 1 hour! In one hour my first client arrives! And we are ready! We have worked non stop all through the day to get the two training yachts ready this week. Sailingholidays is the biggest company I have worked for by far and I am still amazed at the amount of resources, personnel and expertise that is on offer here. I have learned so much in the past 6 weeks. But there is always so more still to learn and do. The rest of the staff have joked that there a...

10 days to go! James and I have just 10 days to go before our first clients arrive. We are working hard on the two training yachts and will have them ready in time. As soon as I can get my laptop to a Place with wifi I will upload a picture of the yacht that ran aground in a bay which we explored 2 weeks ago. Last weekend the plan was to hire some quad bikes but they could not get insurance in time they said. So we were going to hire some this weekend but the ...

I have now been here a month!! Time is flying by and we are all really busy prepping the 200 yachts for the flotilla season which starts in 3 weeks. Last Friday I did meet up with the Yachmaster examiner who examined me and he was delighted to see me and hear my news. On the Sunday Mat, Lizzie, Craig and I hired a car and explored the south of Corfu island. The weather was perfect and we saw a lot of the island. We first had breakfast/lunch at a cafe near t...