There's several good things about being in a marina, the knowledge of warm powerful showers and flushing toilets made the choppy journey a lot more bearable, plus the knowledge that we'd have a chance to fix the leak in the dingy, the best thing about marina's thought is the company. Yachties love talking yacht and after a short period of GPS, fish finder and sails the drinks start to flow and the topic drifts away from the nautical life. We spent a couple of nights in the marina, on the first evening we made friends with a couple of brits a few boats up who happen to have a house on the island, they were tinkering with one of the cabins, and invited us round for a little party- the house was absolutely gorgeous and had more than enough bedrooms, I was almost tempted to move in as full time mixologist / cook but Dan said no. After a few drinks we headed in to the main town before being whisked back to the marina on the back of a moped (possibly the most horrific few moments of my life), it was late but still too hot to sleep inside, luckily the neighbours weren't around so two sleepy sailors once again fell asleep amongst a pile of pillows on the trampoline. The next morning we woke up to the sound of meowing from tinks the cat who was chilling out on the canopy, we slowly rubbed our eyes and spent a few moments enjoying the view of blue sky before heading for an ice cold shower. Slathered in sun screen we set to exploring the island for the day, that evening we headed to skippers bar for frozen cocktails with new friends. Most of the evening was spent trying to persuade us to pack in our jobs back home, buy a boat and set sail, sadly the answer for now is no -although we definitely plan on owning a motor boat in aus. We headed back to the boat, made hot chocolate and started planning the trip back to Kos to fly home :(
xo