Turquoise lagoons between the wooded headlands and islets of Diaporos

Halkidiki

Three peninsulas, a few hundred bays, and a sea that stays warm into October.

Halkidiki is shaped like a hand with three fingers. Kassandra on the west is the busy one, Sithonia in the middle has the coastline worth sailing, and Athos on the east is the one you look at from the water.

What makes it good for a boat is the distance between things. You are never more than an hour from somewhere sheltered, so an afternoon breeze does not end the day.

We sail out of two points here: Paliouri on Kassandra and Porto Carras on Sithonia.

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