Captain’s Log: Heading to Corfu : Family vacation.

Having spent 36 hours in Venice, we left that beautiful city astern as we made our way south, through the Adriatic. Unlike the day before our arrival in Venice, the Adriatic was as calm as a millpond, whereas two days prior, we were in a 50 knot gale which had sprung out of nowhere, with not one of the forecast scenarios anticipating it.
As we followed the vessel routing system, which keeps all ships clear of the numerous rigs which pump oil and gas to the Italian mainland, we made our way to

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