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Aigina, Greece

Photo: Fruit and vegetable market vendor in Aigina, Greece. Credit: L. Borre.
This is our kind of market! The fruit and vegetable venders in Aigina sell their products on the quay from caiques, traditional Greek fishing boats. Photo: Lisa Borre.

Logbook Entry

Dates: 09/16/09 – 09/17/09
Distance: 29 nm
Sailed from: Corinth
Lat: 37°44.4’N
Long: 23°25.7’E

We passed through the Corinth Canal and into the Aegean Sea today — a short-cut that saves five days of sailing at a time in the season when we really need it.  We’re making a beeline for Turkey — as much as this is possible in the Greek Islands — to find a winter home for Gyatso.  We didn’t mind that the weather was totally calm on this particular day.

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