Sunday 25th September 2016

Run number 1962

Greek Island of Aegina

Combined Athens and Piss-Tash-Yo Hash

Hares: Aliass and Strawberry4Skin

Start: Entrance to the port

Start GPS: 37.746195°, 23.426990°

Run length: 5.2 km

 

Run and walk started from outside the port entrance as shown

 

The trail as recorded on a Garmin 305 GPS

 

Just a few of the hundreds of pistachio tree plantations on Aegina

 

Leaving Pireaus on the Posidon Hellas ferry

 

Pireaus in the distance

 

Doggy Style in the lounge

 

Seagull flying alongside the ferry

 

Approaching the port of Aegina

 

Flying Dolphin (Russian-built hydrofoil).

The worn engines are burning oil and creating a lot of black smoke and soot.

 

Arrival on the car ferry at the port at Aegina town on Aegina Island

 

Heading along the jetty towards the town

 

Looking back at two docked ferries

 

The little chapel on the jetty

 

Mad Dog poses with the cannons

 

The harriettes meet up for a chat

 

RA Fair Cop calls the pre-run circle to order

 

We have some new boots and visitors

 

And hasher Aliass (Preston Pete) in the pink shorts -

who has driven to Greece from the UK on his motorbike.

 

We (runners and walkers) stop at the periptero (kiosk) for bottles of water before setting off.

 

A horse and carriage plying for trade outside the port area

 

The runners are away - following the white flour trail laid by the hares

 

We pass the archaeological site of Kolona - which was the acropolis of the ancient city and it's religious and political base.

Kolona was first inhabited in 3500 b.c. which was the copper era.

 

The runners enter the beach section of the run

 

A flour blob can be seen on ther right marking the trail

 

Heading along the beach

 

The hare Aliass poses on his check - with Fair Cop posing behind

 

Mad Dog gets a break from photographing to get photographed himself.

 

A fun pose by some of the runners

 

A falsie at the end of an alleyway

 

The walkers led by Strawberry4Skin who would normally run but is nursing a hangover

 

On On runners

 

 

Runners meet up with walkers

 

New harriette poses with this colourful Bougainvillea

 

We arrive at the Beer Stop at Playboy2 and Flutterby's house

 

Nice smiles from the harriettes - with Clitoria in the foreground

 

The rear garden view

 

The Hashers pose on the steps (as they have in the past)

Host Playboy2 is in the turquoise T-shirt

 

We set off for the beach and a local pussy cat looks at us with amusement as we pass

 

On on to the beach

 

At the beach, our new boots prepare for the circle (?)

 

The circle

 

 

The hares S4S and Aliass are awarded the traditional beer down down

 

 

Captain Sumo's down down for front running

 

New boots Vergil and partner

 

The three questions

 

And then Clitoria asks the fourth question

 

Terry from Long Beach, California (and her friend behind)

 

A visitor from previous hashes

 

Unfortunately for Aliass his new trainers have been spotted - and that means they must be drunk from.

 

Beer strained theough his sock goes into the shoe

 

Delicious ?

 

After lunch and coffee we head for the port and a ferry to return us to Pireaus

 

We catch the Ahaios car ferry

 

Leaving the port on the ferry

 

Doggy Style relaxing in the lounge

 

View from the deck of a very calm sea

 

Back inside the passenger lounge

 

OTHER STUFF

 

Both sides of the menu from the souvlaki taverna where we ate lunch

 

The cafe where all had an after-lunch coffee and some sweet

 

The cafe's business card

 

  

A flyer from the ferry car companies plying trade with Aegina

 

The ferry schedule given to us on board the ferry to Aegina indicating return times

 

Ferry company contact numbers at their various destinations.

 

The outgoing and return ferry tickets (per person)

The retun fare is more expensive at 9.80 euros against 8.70 euros

 

The Pireaus Port underground parking charge for the day - 13 euros for 8 hours

(5 euros for the first hour, then 1 euro per hour)

 

THE DIRECTIONS
(as sent out to the hashers on the e-mail list)

 

Next AH3 Hashing event:

Run: 1962

Sunday 25th September – midday [12 o’clock…]

H@SH DAY OUT ON AEGINA ISLAND

Hares: Strawberry Foresk!n & maybe Preston Pete

Venue: Aegina…. run starts from port area J, there will be a bag drop off vehicle

On Inn: local taverna

weekend option! For those who want to make a weekend out of it and fancy going over on Saturday there is a suggested cheapish hotel from the motley Aegina crew [€40 for Saturday night or €35 per night if you stay longer] so either:

1. contact Flutterby [Pam] for more info on mob 6938782129, home 22970 26999

2. contact the Marmarinos Hotel direct, telephone 22970 23510 & 22970 22474. Talk to Spiros. Mention Pam!

Directions:

Get to Piraeus and get on a boat to Aegina, there is a car ferry which leaves 10.30 and arrives 11.35 [passenger ticket €8 each way], also a Flying Dolphin which leaves at 11.00 and arrives 11.40 [passenger ticket costs €14 each way]. See Ferry info below ¯ for more options and the schedule for return from Aegina to Piraeus the same day:

FERRIES PIRAEUS - AEGINA

 

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