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            "title": "Sailing Aeolian Islands",
            "content_html": "<p>I was lucky enough to take part in sailing Aeolian Islands in the beginning of June. Here they are:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/isole-eolie-en.png\" width=\"768\" height=\"472\" alt=\"Sailing Aeolian Islands\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>My mind was blown by the amount of new things I’ve learned. In marinas there are special stubs with electricity and water. This helps when you need to charge your iPhone or swab your deck. This one is in Portorosa where we’ve chartered a boat:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/isole-eolie-IMG_3488.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Portorosa\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>As we arrived at a Vulcano bay, we’ve found that there was no marina. I thought we would have to sail to one of the other islands, but it turned out you could moor without a marina! Special\b buoys designate points with available mooring lines. You leave your boat a hundred meters into the sea and go to the island on a dinghy. We didn’t actually have to float our dinghy. Giovanni, a local with a motor boat, brought us to Vulcano:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/isole-eolie-IMG_4424.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Vulcano\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>A Vulcano sunset:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/isole-eolie-IMG_3566.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"A Vulcano sunset\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>After several hours on the island, Giovanni takes us back “home”:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/isole-eolie-IMG_4440.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Vulcano\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>A Vulcano sunrise:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/isole-eolie-IMG_3586.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"A Vulcano sunrise\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>In Lipari, there was a marina with electricity, water and even free Wi-Fi:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/isole-eolie-IMG_3590.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Lipari\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Wi-Fi came in handy: the night at Lipari was the night after WWDC and I was able to watch the Keynote.<\/p>\n<p>Sailing to Salina:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/isole-eolie-IMG_3773.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Sailing Aeolian Islands\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>All the doors have hooks to fix them open:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/isole-eolie-IMG_3468.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Sailing Aeolian Islands\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Our boat (the closest one) at Santa Marina Salina:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/isole-eolie-IMG_4597.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Santa Marina Salina\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Clothes-pegs are very useful on a boat:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/isole-eolie-IMG_3993.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Sailing Aeolian Islands\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here, two are used to fix my bathing trunks to a jibsheet:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/isole-eolie-IMG_3995.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Sailing Aeolian Islands\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>We were planning to sail next to Stromboli, an active volcano. Unfortunately, there was not only no marina on Stromboli, there weren’t any mooring buoys either. The skipper explained the anchorage theory, but later we decided to change the plan due to unfavourable weather. We booked a hotel and took a ferry to Stromboli.<\/p>\n<p>A Stromboli beach:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/isole-eolie-IMG_4641.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"A Stromboli beach\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>The clouds form cute hats above the islands:<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/isole-eolie-IMG_4677.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Sailing Aeolian Islands\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>We returned to Sicily having one day of the charter left, so we used it to sail to a nice harbour not far from Portorosa and practice anchorage in a good weather.<\/p>\n<p>I will probably write about the islands themselves sometime later.<\/p>\n",
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