The Republic of Heaven

I've found all the places on the itinerary except Phaeleron Bay, does anyone know where/what it is?

i just might not exist... alternate world and all..

i just might not exist... alternate world and all..

PP has been far too clever elsewhere for this to be a made-up place.

Phaethon Bay is a historical area on the Aegean coast of modern Turkey. It was from here that Greek colonists set out for Massalia (Marseilles) in c 600 BC.

I have a feeling Phaeleron was a site of a battle in WWII. Does PP's family have a connexion with the Greek theatre of war?

Google comes up with surprisingly little. but I did find this amongst a list of members of the Gloucestershire Regiment killed in WW2

Lieutenant THOMAS JAMES HAWKER - 23rd December 1944
Attached 2nd Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry. Aged 31. Born 5th December 1923, second son of Henry and Rose Hawker, of Cheltenham, Glos. Killed by a sniper at 9.30 on the morning of the 23rd December 1944. Buried at Phaeleron War Cemetery, Greece.

Google comes up with surprisingly little.

You're right. Just two hits, and one of them's in Dutch.

Although a little creativity with the spelling gets us more.

For example, http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/P/Phaleron-Bay.htm

Thank you all for the info.
Lillie

A port peripheral to Athens.

Over two years! Is this a record for a necrophilic post?

Must have scrolled for ages to find it.

Not really. The entire Lyra's Oxford forum is one page long. But yeah, I think that is the record.

My copy has Phaleron Bay, so presumably the early edition carried a misprint which has now been corrected. So quentin was right, it's Athens.

Something else regarding the cruise schedule: 60 hours from Algiers to Palma seems a trifle generous, but I'm no expert.