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AegeAn seA Ro and Castellorizo. It is a lovely area. coast to sell us colorful handkerchiefs,
sailing between greece and turkey Ro is known because a certain Despina decorated with shells. On the coast
Alchladioti lived there from 1927 to 1982 of Kekova the remains of a Byzantine
who every morning went to hoist, as church and ancient walls.
That August we left Rhodes with a challenge, the Greek flag in the face There are numerous Lycian tombs also
our “Fondenita” and arrived in of the coast of Turkey just a few miles submerged by the sea. In Kaleucazig,
Cyprus: in Greek Cyprus, on the south away. Despina is remembered as the once the boat was moored on a pier,
coast. Fondenita was our sailing boat “lady of Ro”. The islet of Kastelorizo, two we went up to visit the impressive
that I co-owned with my friend Franco. miles south of the village Kas, on the and powerful Turkish fortress that
Me with Anna Maria, Franco with Flavia Turkish coast, is known for the famous dominates the bay. After Cape Cum
and their little daughter “Betta”. film “Mediterranean” was filmed there. we then continued until we reached a
With us there were always a couple of We wandered among the islands of the tiny harbor from where, in the evening
friends. From a bay on the west coast of very indented Turkish coast: Strongili, IÇ, a couple of days later, we took the sea
Rhodes, where we were moored, in the Tersane cove, Karakal, Kekova, Andraki back to Cyprus. For many miles, during
afternoon we headed east-southeast, bay, Gokkala, Cape Kum, Antalia bay, the night, we moved southwards, and
towards the Turkish island of Catal which and then headed to Cyprus. The islet of IÇ only afterwards towards east to make
we reached at dawn the next day. From is inhabited only by goats. believe, when we reached Cyprus, that
here, along the Turkish coast there is On the island of Kekova, a grandmother we came from Rhodes, a Greek island,
a series of islands and islets in Turkish with her little boat and three girls with and not from the coast of Turkey... as it is
waters; only two islands are still Greek: another little boat came rowing from the forbidden.

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