Here, we met with our Irish cousin, Liem, who we saw earlier in Ireland, he arrived on a ferry, and joined us after a day of wandering around and eating gelato (gluten free cones!)

We didn’t do much in Lipari, aside from a pretty typical anchoring (the anchor went in first try though, so I suppose that should be mentioned), and the left for the next, very large, island of Salina

What was rough in the middle of the day, drastically dissipated, leaving us with dead calm water to comfortably anchor, and have dinner.

The next day, we climbed the volcano (all of these islands have at least one volcano, and two are still active)

It was nearly 1km tall, and ten or 15 times that to walk.

The ascent was in particularly good condition, despite the top not having the best view, because we were in the clouds, we did find a very well kept little hut with thankfully cold walls and ate biscuits.

The descent was more how we expected the entire track to be, thin and covered in loose, small rocks. It was a pain, literally because a lot of people (not me) fell over.

But the swim and lemonade at the end made it worth it.