Wed 13th we left early to round the 2nd cape and weather was fine - in fact we had to motor all morning until we rounded the cape then we had a great sail in 20 to 22 knots across the next bay. We'd thought of stopping just around the cape but the wind was so good we decided to press on and anchor just to the west of the 3rd cape at Elafonisos island ready to round the next morning. As the winds continued to blow strongly from the SW into the evening as we approached Elafonisos Island the bay on the south coast was too exposed so we headed on round to the east coast where a small bay offered reasonable shelter and indeed we had a fairly quiet night disturbed only by wash from a huge tanker which went through the channel around 3am! Thursday 14th - another earlyish start (away by 0645) and we rounded cape Malea and started heading north along the east coast of the peloponnese towards Athens. First stop was Monemvasia (source of Malmsey wine) where we were lucky to find a berth in the very small inner harbour. The old walled town on the rocky peninsula (known as little Gibraltar) is a special treasure (a Byzantine/Venetian version of Mont St Michel or St Paul de Vence). We'd liked to have stayed here a day or two more but strong northerly winds were forecast so to avoid being stormbound here for maybe as much as a week we left early on Friday for Poros in the Saronic Gulf where the winds were forecast to be less strong perhaps F5/6 and there is reasonable shelter (we hope). In fact winds got up to over 20 knots directly on the nose so we were glad we'd come north early.