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There be dragons

igh season in Greece inevitably means busy waters, and yet here we are in a bay by ourselves. In fact, we’ve barely seen a yacht all day. If the beach at the head of the bay wasn’t so busy we’d be wondering if something strange had happened. The previous night was a different story – two dozen yachts,

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