Well it was time for us to say goodbye to Nancy and Rango (the goats) and head for the ferry to Piraeus (Athens) and get back to traipsing. That's Brigitte below with her cute dress and packsack. She could easily model for Mountain Equipment Coop with a get up like that!! 
Due to a discombobulation when booking our travel to Athens we ended up on a 11 hour ferry ride which took in the sights at five other islands. Other than Eos, these island sightings all happened after midnight....not the best time for viewing the sights.
This attractive ferry is the high speed we had wanted to catch (4hrs) instead we enjoyed the slower ferry with its limited space and a ton of people, broken air conditioning and diesel smoke that rolled into the cabin area. So here's where my romantic idea of backpacking through Europe gets a bit off track. It's fun to sleep on the deck of a pitching ship when you're 20 something. Quite another when you're in you late 40's. Brigitte is still not talking to me though the kids seem fine. It was a looooong night though punctuated with a few high spots.
Brigitte and I enjoyed the sunset on the deck with an excellent glass of local red wine and the warm breeze. (This is before things got ugly ) I added this picture of a truck coming off the Ferry with part of its load on the lift gate at the rear. In Canada you would be fined down to your underwear for attempting such a thing but not here in Greece. Gotta love that.
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