Our cruise of the Greek islands ended with a day sailing from Kyros back to Athens. Our route took us in quite close to the mainland at its southern tip, Cape Sounio, where the Temple of Poseidon stands on the tip of the headland. It was a subdued day as we faced the end of our escape from normal life, and saying goodbye to all these people.
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| Sailing back up the coast toward Athens. |
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| The Temple of Poseidon on Cape Sounio. |
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| Sue, a cuppa, and the Temple of Poseidon. |
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| Sails up! |
The Galileo has sails, and many photos of her show her with sails up. The reality is that they are just toy sails, which don't actually do anything useful, and in fact the crew are reluctant to unfurl them unless the wind is very light. Today they announced they would get them out so we could take some photos!
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| Back at home base in Athens, in Marina Zeas. |
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| The map in the salon, where Joseph marked our progress. |
We slept on board in Athens that night, had breakfast, and then disembarked. There was quite a change of atmosphere on board as the crew were obviously keen to get everyone on their way so they could start the big job of preparing the ship for the next lot, who will arrive a 2 pm this afternoon!
We taxied back into the city to the Amalia Hotel for our last night before boarding the plane for Dubai. Athens is starting to seen quite familiar!
