{"id":2187,"date":"2015-06-20T17:55:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T17:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.downhillonly.com\/wordpress\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2015-06-20T17:55:42","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T17:55:42","slug":"big-vathi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2187","title":{"rendered":"Big Vathi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written from Little Vathi on Meganisi a few times in the past, but today we travelled to Big Vathi, which is the capital of Ithaka. It&#8217;s not far from Kioni where we stayed last night.<br \/>\nWhen we mentioned to the people on the boat next door that we were coming here they took a sharp intake of breath and said &#8216;ooh, windy Vathi&#8217;.<br \/>\nAnyhow off we went and here we are. Our neighbours were quite right, it took 3 attempts to get Konstantinos moored to Val&#8217;s satisfaction (she&#8217;s the anchor expert).<br \/>\nLovely place. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wpid-2015-06-20-20.45.41.jpg.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2015-06-20 20.45.41.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wpid-2015-06-20-20.45.41.jpg.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve moored your boat you are at liberty to watch everyone else trying to achieve the same thing. Reversing up to a quay in a strong crosswind isn&#8217;t easy. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wpid-2015-06-20-17.37.38.jpg.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2015-06-20 17.37.38.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wpid-2015-06-20-17.37.38.jpg.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bigger the boat the harder it gets. This 56 foot catamaran was a proper handful. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wpid-2015-06-20-19.37.40.jpg.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2015-06-20 19.37.40.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wpid-2015-06-20-19.37.40.jpg.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lovely dinner later on. It&#8217;s a really nice town.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wpid-2015-06-20-19.53.25.jpg.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2015-06-20 19.53.25.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wpid-2015-06-20-19.53.25.jpg.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written from Little Vathi on Meganisi a few times in the past, but today we travelled to Big Vathi, which is the capital of Ithaka. It&#8217;s not far from Kioni where we stayed last night. When we mentioned to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2187\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travelsandtribulations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}