{"id":2643,"date":"2015-06-09T14:37:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T13:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=2643"},"modified":"2015-06-09T14:39:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T13:39:38","slug":"efcharisto-thank-you-greece-buongiorno-italia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=2643","title":{"rendered":"Efcharisto (Thank You) Greece! Buongiorno, Italia!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had our last night in Greece in the small harbour Ormous Ammou on the Nisos Othoni.\u00a0 There on this small outer island, north of Corfu, one would have found a Venetian lighthouse and medieval fortress, with views over to Albania. We had two days on Corfu with Ric and Sandy, what was one highlight you ask? The boys might say it was watching Lateen rigged boats sail on Corfu harbour. Once the sail was in they rowed. How would Davo go with all that weight?<\/p>\n

\"Lateen<\/a>
Lateen Rigged Boats – Corfu Harbour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We had time to sit on board and think about how much we enjoyed Greece, how hospitable the people were, how beautiful the harbors and bays are.\u00a0\u00a0 Its history is the history of Western democracies. I feel the connection all the way back to Athena and Aphrodite and the Virgin Mary. The food is superb and fresh fruits and veggies are so ripe and wonderful.<\/p>\n

\"North<\/a>
North Corfu beaches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All through this trip, we have wondered if there would be trouble travelling in Greece, with the IMF and Angela breathing down Greek\u2019s neck. We haven\u2019t had one difficulty, not with diesel or ATM\u2019s or any of the myriad problems that travel agents in Europe had been forecasting like ancient Jocastas.<\/p>\n

\"Sail<\/a>
Sail past Albania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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So my take is: visit Greece, it is inexpensive compared to the rest of Europe, it has something for everyone and it is beautiful.\u00a0 The food is wonderful and so are the people.<\/p>\n

\"leaving<\/a>
leaving Greece at daybreak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Today we have sailed across to Santa Maria di Leuca, Italia. Usually we are on the lookout for ships, lobster pots and dolphins, but today we narrowly missed hitting a tree.\u00a0 Ok, afterwards we reassessed “tree” and think maybe it was a big shrub, but it seemed to pop up as we glided right by it. It was quite strange but we think a storm might have taken it off a cliff and it was floating just below the surface until we went by.\u00a0 Soon after, beautiful dolphins did come and play with us jumping up two by two for several minutes. \u00a0We think they were saying \u201cBuongiorno\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had our last night in Greece in the small harbour Ormous Ammou on the Nisos Othoni.\u00a0 There on this small outer island, north of Corfu, one would have found a Venetian lighthouse and medieval fortress, with views over to Albania. We had two days on Corfu with Ric and Sandy, what was one highlight … Continue reading Efcharisto (Thank You) Greece! Buongiorno, Italia!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,26,22,41,73,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-2","category-boats","category-friendship","category-greek-islands","category-italy","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VxXq-GD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2649,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}