I took a ferry to the nearest of the Greek islands on a whim. From what I’ve heard, it’s much more important to buy tickets in advance during the summer, but I was able to walk up and board a ferry within half an hour.
There was more of the island that I didn’t see, but since I didn’t rent transportation, I mostly stuck to the little port town. Unlike Athens, which typically labelled street signs with both Greek and English, all the signage was completely in Greek, and I didn’t have a map. It worked out – I was only there for the afternoon, and I spent most of it at the archaeological site/park, happily sun burning my nose.
People live on Aegina year-round – 13,000 of them, according to the internet – and I find it baffling. What do they do? The island isn’t even twelve miles at its longest point. I don’t even know if there’s a bookstore….
Archaeological site of Aegina
