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Slow Sailing in 2023
It’s been a while now since we left Australia for Greece and sailing life and I find it a bit startling that we have not managed to sail very far as yet. But this (life) journey has always been about control and surrender. The two sides of the one coin that we cycle between from…
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Making Our Way South
From the moment I had heard about Khalkidhiki I had wanted to go there. Three fingers of land hanging down from the mainland of Greece into the northern Aegean Sea, the third of them being a peninsula of monasteries and holy to all eastern orthodox Christians. At its isolated and somewhat desolate end sits Mt…
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It’s All Greek To Me
It’s always been a love affair between Greece and me. It has been since my arrival in Athens on my 21st birthday after a horror show debacle in Bangladesh. We had been offloaded from a budget airline flight in Dhaka and told we may get another in weeks, if lucky. At that point we were…