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Approaching the island of “Hydra”Docked in Hydra

We anchored behind this tiny little island.Our destination was Hydra but there was not enough daylight left to go all the way there, so we anchored off the island of Poros.We left Athens after having toured all the significant historical sites. By this…

Various pictures from the top of the Acropolis.Many buildings from the Byzantine time (11th an 12th century)The second last picture is from “Hadrian’s” arch and is not from Byzantine time but was build in 131 AD in honor of Emperor Hadrian.If you look …

The “Parthenon” or the temple build in honor of the goddess Athena. Build around 447 BCThe Odeon of Herodes build in 161 BC

 From Sifnos we cruised to Kythnos and anchored out. We took the dingy down and went to the port town of Merihas.  The next morning we lifted anchor and set out for main land Greece. We steamed right through till we reached Athens (close to 5…

 We visited a monastery ( one of many in Greece) way up on top of the highest mountain in the area, and had a perfect view of the harbor from up there.     Looking down from the mountain to a valley which had several small fields th…

Add captionWe navigated through the rocks on the north end of Antiparos on rout to Sifnos.It was a 4 hour run but pretty rough.

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 Many small churches all over. Some in very remote areas.We don’t believe these are used anymore but kept up as a historic monument.   On our way back from touring the Island we can see the port of Ormos where the boat is docked.  T…

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