We had another interesting sail back across the open waters of the gulf to get back to our home port of Lavrion. We stayed on the boat that night.
The next day and a diver was sent down to check over our hull. We were afraid he might see some damage to the rudder as we were sure that at some point it had hit something but he surfaced with a thumbs up and we were given back out deposit.
We traveled across the peninsula by taxi to Patras, a distance of 165 miles and went via the Corinth canal. This is an amazing structure, a deep channel chiseled out of the rock. We had a great talk with the taxi driver who told us a some taxis that had mileages of over 250,000 miles and were still going strong. Good old Mercedes Benz.
At Patras, we took a ferry to Venice, which was about 30 hours sailing, where we were met by Mum and driven to Cipieres. Venice was cold, grey and drizzling.
As we were going up the Grand Canal we saw the luxury motor boat Octopus, which is owned by Paul Allen, one of the founders of Microsoft. It had a helicopter (and 2 helicopter pads) and under one of the flaps at the back, a miniature submarine.
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