September 1st.

[Carmel2]

I love this day every year; the Italians have gone home, no more do I have to listen to their every conversation from a mile away. They have very important mobile phone calls to make, so important in fact that it could not be done inside their boat, but on our transom which seems to be the most discreet place...........................Bliss: September 1st, no longer do I have to listen to Mario shouting to Fiorenzo in the next marina down about nothing.

Long live September 1st!!

 

[Carolwildbird]

Hear hear!

My anxiety levels will drop a bit... no more anchors being ripped up.... (touch wood!)

 

[Davy_S]

Oh how I agree! The sad thing is, we have Italian friends and guests, one evening we were invited by Italians to share a bottle of wine with them (this was before we moved to Greece) we had a lovely evening, we raided our fridge for more bottles and continued to put the world to right. A brit voice shouted from our apartments, shut the fuxx up, we are trying to get to sleep! and locked us outside shutting the corridor door, luckily our Italian friends were accomplished theives and knew how to open the door with a knife, so all was well!
However, living in the Ionian, and purely for my own point of view, I know now that I can take my little boat out for fishing and a swim and know that no Italian boat will have nicked my mooring. These people have no morals or manners (apart from our friends) they will disrupt a taverna so that eight of them can share one bottle of water! Bye Bye Italianos, see you next year!

 

[Carmel2]

It was explained to me in simple form by an Italian, "Its better for me"

 

[fliti]

Having spent the last 12 months in Spain and being about to move to Italian waters, I can only say that the Italians will be hard put to match the incompetence, head banging selfishness and sheer ear bursting noise of the Spanish at sea. I read somewhere that every spaniard's dream is to be issued with a gold plated certificate stating "This spaniard is authorised to do whatever he likes, wherever he likes, whenever he likes". Certainly works in the marine environment. Viva Italia

 

[Carmel2]

Let's meet again on Set 1, 2011..................

 

[duncan99210]

Peace has also arrived in Greece - only Italian left on the pontoon here in Gouvia is looking v mournful 'cos he doesn't have anyone to talk to.....

 

[ccscott49]

I have to agree, very quiet now in Gouvia!! No more italians blasting up and down on their hired quad bikes and scooters! Great!
No more screaming and shouting kids and parents.

 

[MapisM]

no more do I have to listen to their every conversation from a mile away

Admit it, in one week you'll be bored to death, desperately trying to hear someone else's conversation to no avail...

 

[jimbaerselman]

I miss those Italians politely telling incredibly rowdy parties of drunken Brits holidaying on charter boats to shut the **** up and let everyone get some sleep . . . now I've got to do it.

 

[Carmel2]

And 5 days later, I can see the sea bed below our berth, for the first time since May............

I love September!

 

[Carmel2]

Peace at last!

 

[BobnLesley]

There's still one left at least...

A few nights ago we were in One Tree/Cornfield Bay to the SW of the Levkas Canal - room for about 500 boats, but only six of us there (seperate by 100m minimum) when Guiseppe arrived, dropped his anchor - not dug in of course - to settle out less than 10m off our bow.

Unless the weather was to pick up unexpectedly, it wasn't a serious issue so rather than have the argument, we just upped anchor and moved ourselves a couple of hundred metres.

That said, give me Italian Yachties everytime rather than 'The Man from Athens' in his powerboat around the Saronic/Western half of the Cyclades.

 

[Carmel2]

Well here we are again! Deep joy!

 

[duncan99210]

There is some point in pottering about the western Med as we've done this summer. There are very few Italians here...... And now they've gone as well as most of the other folks as well. Now, if only the Tramontana would go away we'd be well pleased. 40+ knots for the past 48 hours and another 48 to go......

 

[Wansworth]

Well here we are again! Deep joy!

Come to Galicia we have no Italians..itsa like september every day.....

 

[artemis07]

Like many we returned to the UK for August and September. We jumped in our camper van and headed to the north and northwest of Scotland only to have Italian campers surrounding us! Very different people, charming and quiet.

 

[B&M]

I can now leave a 3 foot gap when mooring, without worrying that an Italian might come along and try to moor his 50 foot yacht in the space.

 

[Steve C Cronin]

Peace has also arrived in Greece - only Italian left on the pontoon here in Gouvia is looking v mournful 'cos he doesn't have anyone to talk to.....

Salvattori has lived on his little boat there for years. Leave him alone: he agrees with all we say about his fellow countrymen!

I'm down in Mesolonghi waiting for a rather stubborn NE6 to abate and let me get to Trizonia. There are plenty of Italian boats left in the marina but we're at anchor out in the bay.

 

[Carmel2]

There are plenty of Italian boats left in the marina but we're at anchor out in the bay.

Then you should thank your lucky stars you are not in the pick and mix of who's anchor is your's in the morrning.