Beach holiday
The surface of Nikiana bay offered barely a ripple. Only the wakes of distant yachts disturbed the glassiness as I paddled an SUP out from the beach. The morning calm felt like a different world to Gatwick 24 hours earlier, where we’d got the red eye out on the first day of the summer holidays with kids in tow. A week at Seafarer Sailing’s beach club on the Greek island of Lefkas lay ahead, an item that had long been on the bucket list. Office thoughts subsided as I made lazy progress into the bay, occasionally waving at the few others doing the same. Alone off a buoy a few hundred metres out, I stopped and let the board glide, taking in the unspoilt, mountainous surrounds of the bay and thinking about the week ahead. Our family room overlooked the beach, there was a large fleet of dinghies ready for
