29 Aug to 1st Sept - Next morning Claire left to go to a wedding in France and we continued eastwards through the Corinth Canal. Wind was from the east and there was a 2 knot current flowing against us so we made slow progress. All the time we were expecting the control office to call us on the radio to tell us to hurry up (we were reluctant to push the revs too high) but fortunately they must have either made allowances for the wind/current or just were more relaxed than our previous trip as this time they didn’t chase us. So now were back in the Saronic Gulf and we went back to one of our favourite ports – a tiny harbour at Vathy. We got in to the last place on the quay and then late evening had a french boat (Jerome from St Marine (which we’d visited in 2009)a beautiful little port opposite Benodet in south Brittany) raft alongside us without an anchor out – fortunately a very calm night and to overcome any concerns we might have about supporting both boats on our anchor, Jerome produced a bottle of very nice Breton whisky! – and then an even later arrival berthed stern to between the bows of a couple of boats berthed stern to the quay ie starting a second rank of parked boats!! Crazy and of course anchors get tangled up but somehow it all gets sorted out. We like Vathy so much we ended up staying 2 nights and it was lovely to have a day chilling out after the trip from Corfu where we’d sailed every day and most days from around 0800 (breakfast on the way!) until evening. Then we went to Aegina (pronounced we now understand as “Eggina”) where Michelle could get the fast ferry to Piraeus and taxi to the airport. This is much quicker, easier and cheaper than us sailing into any of the marinas around Athens and getting a ferry is perhaps an essential part of a holiday in Greece.