It’s Monday today and I fly home to London on Wednesday.

I’m having my last few days in Poros.  Staying in the apartments where Michael and I stayed back in June, it’s not too far from Athens and I thought it would be a good place to rest-up and have a bit of a mental regroup before my summer here is over.

I’m glad I haven’t been weighing myself – I have a feeling that a couple of kilos that I shed on Tinos crept back in with the fantastic meals and not-insignificant amount of beer and wine consumed over the course of the week.  I’m also willing to believe that such an active thing as sailing will of course cancel out the overindulgence.  But I’ll never know, and that suits me right now.

I’m sitting with this view:

Thinking back to Thursday of last week when I woke up in the yacht out in this bay.  From there my view was this:

And that Thursday morning, I did this:

Like had done for my three or so swims a day during the fantastic week on the boat.

In a way the sailing week was such a big thing for me that it eclipses quite a lot of the earlier time on Tinos.

I am writing myself some little lists to look back on about my skippering week – the stuff that went well, what didn’t go so well, things I learned, things I’ll ask sailing instructor Jim about when I have the weekend to complete my Coastal Skipper course.

I’m also jotting down some random memorable things . . . I think the WOW! of sailing into the main harbour on Hydra is going to stick with me for a long time.

One downside of being at the helm and the others all being on standby for their mooring jobs is that it is hard to get photos at those moments.  I am looking forward to seeing the pictures the others took when I get home.

After asking my Facebook pals for recommendations I ordered a smartphone yesterday so that it should be waiting for me when I get home.  Deciding that it was time to make the leap to a smartphone was accelerated by the fact that I destroyed my old nokias by forgetting they were in my pocket when I got very wet in the dingy on our first night.