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I + 20 : Messene - Reminder of Transience
Our Boat, the MYRA, this morning at Sunrise at 06.59 am (in Rhodes it was 06.25 am) This morning, after breakfast, it was time to say...
hbanziger
Aug 103 min read
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I + 15 : Pirates of the Aegean
Turkish Sailors surrender to the Greek Privateer Katsionis - Painting from his Crimean Villa Greek folklore is full of tales of heroic...
hbanziger
Aug 45 min read
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I + 10 : Crete - A Manufacturing Power House
Fresco of a young, dancing Minoan Noble Woman from Knossos Seven miles north of Heraklion lies the island of Dia. Four of its bays...
hbanziger
Jul 303 min read
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I - 1 : When Rhodes "invented" the Egyptian Grain Trade
Arrived in Rhodes - one day from boarding the MYRA! The Ports in Rhodes are still the same as in ancient Times - Open Port (left), Big...
hbanziger
Jul 184 min read
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I - 24 : Tar - More than just Pitch Black
Tar has a high Viscosity and flows slowly but is still liquid at Room Termperature There are many unsung innovations in history. One of...
hbanziger
Jun 254 min read
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I - 31 : Sails - Mankind's Biggest Game Changer
Felucas on the Nile, sailing upriver with the prevailing Desert Wind A few months ago I wrote a blog about ropes. Always wanted to follow...
hbanziger
Jun 185 min read
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I - 46 : Early Days of Aviation
Francesco de Pinedo and Ernesto Campanellin in the Savoia in 1925 Exactly 100 years ago, Francesco de Pinedo, a pioneering Italian...
hbanziger
Jun 44 min read
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I - 51 : No Greek Highways Without EU
The 2004 completed Rion Antirion Bridge in Patras links A5 and A8 and cost EUR 670 Million At the end of this summer’s sailing, we will...
hbanziger
May 304 min read
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I - 54 : Rhodes - Ancient Armed Neutrality
Aerial View of Rhodes - at the Back the Ancient Acropollis with Stadion & Temple of Apollo Never underestimate the power of a Map. In...
hbanziger
May 254 min read
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I - 61 : Was our Trip possible 100 Years ago?
Ala Littoria's Flight Schedule 1939 - you can see Rhodes A good 2 months to go until we set foot on the Myra, our sail boat from 19 of...
hbanziger
May 184 min read
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I - 75 : Cypresses - the Rare Earth of 2'000 BC?
Cypresses line the Road to my House in the South of France A row of Cypress trees lines the road to my property in the South of France....
hbanziger
May 45 min read
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I - 86 : What was the Doric Hexapolis?
Mainstreet of the Dorian City of Camirus, 40 km SW of Rhodes, with the Fountain Square Was trying for months to find out more about the...
hbanziger
Apr 255 min read
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I - 98 : How Rain made Sparta strong
The lush Mountains in the Peloponnese with their fertile Valleys receive a lot of Rain Mosf of my High School class mates hated history....
hbanziger
Apr 134 min read
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I - 124 : An Island's Lifeblood - Tourism in Crete
A typical small, family owned Hotel Resort east of Heraklion probably built in the 1980s Don’t have GDP numbers for the time when Crete...
hbanziger
Mar 154 min read
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I - 135 : Was Crete a Imperial Backwater without Roman Towns?
The Odeon in Gortyn, Rome's Provincial Capital for Crete and Cyrenaica in North Africa A good 4 months to go before sailing this summer –...
hbanziger
Mar 25 min read
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I - 143 : The quite adaptive Dorian Tribe
The Lindos Acropolis dates back to the Dorian Settlement around 900 BC For thousands of years, the Minoans lived on the island of Crete....
hbanziger
Feb 225 min read
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I - 147 : Mussolini's Tourists in Rhodes
Italian Poster promoting Tourism in Rhodes in 1935 When writing my previous blog, I found the above poster on the internet. First, I...
hbanziger
Feb 195 min read
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I - 162 : 60 Olive Trees per Person in Crete!
One of the first things you notice when arriving in Crete is the sheer number of olive trees. Greece produces about 250’000 tons of olive...
hbanziger
Feb 33 min read
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I - 172 : Crete's "obscure" Wines
Aggelakis Winery 10 km south of Heraklion in Crete The Minoan civilization, Europe’s first, fascinates me since I visited Crete in 1979....
hbanziger
Jan 265 min read
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I - 194 : Minoans - First Civilisation in Europe
When Apostle Paul, a Roman citizen from Taurus (Adana today), sailed along the coast of Crete, he – like all other 275 passengers – had...
hbanziger
Jan 64 min read
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