We return our battered hire car at Piraeus and catch a hydrofoil to the island of Aegina, filled with a sense of yearning that with more time we would have headed north to Thessaloniki, perhaps west to Ithaca. I will always remember colourful houses set ...

He was sent to prison. The ship, filled with men like him, set off from Solun and after two days of being whipped and abused, the prisoners were offloaded onto the dry Aegean Island, Aegina. He spent an entire year, with hundreds of people like him ...