In July, the wind at Mykonos arrives every afternoon without announcement and without apology. It comes from the north, it comes with force, and it has been doing this for several thousand years without any particular interest in the plans of the people sailing beneath it.

The Greeks call it the Meltemi. Charter brokers, in my experience as CEO of Concierge Unique, often do not mention it at all.

I have been arranging yacht charters in the Aegean since 1999. In that time I have watched many people arrive in Mykonos with a vessel booked, an itinerary planned, and no understanding whatsoever of the wind that governs this part of the world for three months of the year. They discover it on the first afternoon, usually somewhere between Mykonos and Paros, in conditions they had not anticipated. This is not dangerous if the boat and

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