Aegina: The closest island

Duba Dubiozna finally visited me in some of my postings, and we spent some nice time together on Classical grounds. She saved me of my empty big house for a week or so. Here we visited Aegina, the closest island to Piraeus. We walked through Paleochora, it is a MUST walk there, one of rare places where you can walk the "streets" of old capital...well, not a lot remained, except of the churches which were at least minimally maintained. But it is really worth going there.

Go there before they start collecting money for a walk around. It will be soon, I am certain. Durrell in 'Greek islands' writes that there were some streets and gardens still (probably in the 1960ies or so), now really little except of the churches remained.

The site is really incredible.

Also a MUST is the temple in Aphaia, few kilometers further on the way to the other side of the island. It is really extraordinarily preserved one, and magnificently positioned, on the top of the hill.

Transport in Aegina is by buses (not too frequent, in 2hrs tact, but quite enough, atje care to check with the locals when the next one comes, when you go down in some place), or you rent a motor-bike (if you want to see more places than these two).