Our sailing season is over - in case you missed the location of the boat (on the hard) and me with a "Mütze" - a sure sign that winter is upon us!

Haul out went well - and the rain waited until we had been lifted and secured. The next boat - and the last for the day, the lift-out crew was running well behind schedeule - was a 44' catamaran with a beam of 22 feet. There is a flag pole just to the left of our boat. With only 4" to spare, they managed to move the boat into its spot, with me holding a fender to our port side to fight off this monster. But we did not mind .... Sally and Arti are very nice neighbours, and we look forward to work side by side with them.

We celebrated this event with a nice meal and a bottle of Retsina in the evening.

Have a good rest ... La Buena Vida!

We are getting to the end of this summer - we had a slow start, buth then a long one, a really long one, considering that we were swimming in October!

And making use of our bicycles driving around the islands and up-and-down some hills (until our bums said: NO MORE!!!!).

And enjoying the last glass of cidre at our favoured place, up on the hill, overlooking the anchorage and Lake Ontario (no more as well ... they were closing the same weekend).

The fall colours are wonderfull - they are all out there, if not the temperature.

Some friends left south with their boat, and we waved good bye with a sad smile.

Others wanted, and had to stay, and we hugged them, feeling sad. Mireille, you have our best wishes, life sucks at times, or as you said ... "shit happens". Perhaps 2007 was not such a great year after all.