Odyssey and our Epic Journey

It is impossible to know the locations Ulysses and his fellow sailors visited in their legendary trip from Troy to Ithaca.  As many ancient authors I believe, that the hero of the Odyssey was driven west from Cape Maleas in Peloponnese and, more than nine years later, returned from the west to his native Ionian islands: his landfalls are therefore to be found in the western Mediterranean.  The locations listed above in are those in the opinion of V. Berard in his work “Dans le Sillage d’ Ulysse”. 

Our journey and landfalls were also in the western Mediterranean.    We started in Blanes a small town in Costa Brava and headed east towards Corsica and then via the Strait of Bonifacio to the Tyrrhenian Sea.  We then headed south along the west coast of Italy to the Aeolian Islands and Sicily.  After we departed the charming Salina we crossed the Strait of Messina, where the feared Skyla and Charybdis resided to the Ionian Sea and towards the islands on the west coast of Greece.  We then sailed along the Corinthian Gulf and after we crossed Corinth’s canal we entered the Saronic Gulf and reached Athens.  We continued south to Cape Sounion and after rounded it we sailed north to the Bay of Porto Rafti nearby to which one can find the magnificent Templeof Artemis in Vravrona.  It was in its little bay the Achaean Fleet was becalmed and waited for favorable winds on their way to Troy.