We had a gentle start to the day after our ‘big night out’ and left Lefkada in time to get through the 11 o’ clock opening of the floating bridge which opens on the hour from 8 onwards. This bridge is only 50m long and connects Lefkada to the mainland.
As we headed out we could see joggers, bikes, motor bikes and cars using the bridge. On the water, boats queued in front and behind us waiting for it to open. The two sides then lifted and the bridge rotated through a 90 degree angle, clearing a path through the channel. The cars queued while we floated through!
After about an hour, we could see the Cleopatra marina in the distance opposite our destination of Preveza. This has the largest hard standing area of any marina in Europe and would be where the boat would come out of the water on 22nd.
We arrived at Preveza marina. This was our first fully-equipped marina of the trip as we had previously been on pontoons, town quays or at anchor. We took advantage of the nice shower block and laundry room before Dave and I strolled into the city to plan our forward journey while Marco and Theresa busied themselves preparing the boat. (Dave)We didn’t walk very far, and found a nice local bar for our planning session. 
We got excellent meat and potato tapas and he picked a lime from the tree for Sue’s G&T…there’s a first.
We decided to head for Corinth for two nights which would break our journey to Athens, where we already had three nights accommodation booked from Saturday. Dave booked an afternoon coach so he would be available the following day to help Marco lower and store the jib.
Nikos the yacht broker (who looked extremely young to us 😃) had been to St Tropez, Cannes, Nice and then back to Corfu, where he took a ferry to the mainland and then drove to Preveza, where he met us on the boat at just after 9pm. He seemed very helpful and knowledgeable and this was very reassuring for Marco and Theresa.
We rounded off the night with a bottle of wine and four games of cards (Sh*thead) and each lost one, giving a nice balance to our last night on board!!