Attempting to finally leave Levkas legally

We downed our lunch and shot straight over to the Port Authorities with all the relevant paperwork. One look at our insurance document and the tongue clicking began…. “The Greek laws have changed two weeks ago and you do not have enough third party liability cover….” Huh!?

“You have to contact your insurer and ask them to change it.”

“It’s Friday night where my insurer resides and then it’s the weekend and we’ve waited 5 weeks for this and we wanted to sail tomorrow and, and, and….” Buggar!

Nothing for it but to hire a car for the weekend and go and see the rest of Levkas Island before we left it for good. I emailed the insurers asking them to amend the documents by Monday morning their time, email me a copy and fax a copy to the Levkas Port Authorities… Somehow I didn’t fancy our chances, but if we didn’t get out of there by Monday afternoon, the winds were going to turn against us and Corfu would have to wait.

Saturday came and we drove down the spectacular west coast of Levkas. Steep and mountainous dropping into the bluest of blue waters. Twisty windy roads leading down to the coves and beaches with sheer drops of hundreds of feet and nothing to stop you from going over.

One of the many beaches along the West Coast of Levkas

From the edge of the road!

These tow are having a ball...

Heading around one such bend in the road, a scooter rider simply not looking where he was going headed directly for us. We screeched to a stop when he finally noticed us and swung wildly to avoid collision clipping our left front bumper and coming to a stop himself. He was ok but the damage to the car cost us E500.00. That’s about $800. Not happy Jan.

We came across these guys on the way home. Mark our 18yo son has just got his paragliding license so I though he might be interested.

A very dodgy take off because the wind
rotors over that lip sending the wing in all
directions when trying to inflate it 

They got away none-the-less. Unreal place to fly