Spectacular sailing

It was time to leave Europe this morning. Farewell to various people and then the formalities. Amazingly the process went like clockwork, with smiling helpful officials and no queues.

The sail was the most challenging so far with very brisk winds and more rolling swell than expected. (The next bit is for sailors) It involved every point of sail, multiple gybes, goose-winging, gybe preventer, and constant adjustments. By far the most technical sail this year. The really pleasing bit was to be the only yacht we saw all day actually sailing. All others were motoring. We averaged 6kts over the whole trip which may not sound much but felt it. (30 nautical miles in 5 hours).

Ended up in Ciftlik, with good old-fashioned rickety jetties.