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      <image:caption>EXPLORA I alongside the pier in Kavala, northern Greece, seen from the battlements of Kavala Fortress, with the North Aegean beyond.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Lobby Bar on EXPLORA I, seen from the grand staircase on embarkation day in Piraeus. It was the start of a seven-night Explora Journeys cruise from Athens to Istanbul.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A wine room aboard EXPLORA I, with a long live-edge wood and resin table set between glass-fronted wine cabinets, on an Explora Journeys luxury cruise.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Guests on loungers watch a film on the big outdoor screen by the pool on EXPLORA I, beside the deck's glass roof, on an evening sail in the North Aegean.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A softly lit treatment room with a massage bed in the spa aboard EXPLORA I, the Explora Journeys ship sailing between Athens and Istanbul.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Armchairs and sofas face the floor-to-ceiling windows of a lounge aboard EXPLORA I, with Patmos, an island in Greece's Dodecanese, outside.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Armchairs and sofas face the floor-to-ceiling windows of a lounge aboard EXPLORA I, with Patmos, an island in Greece's Dodecanese, outside.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sakura, the pan-Asian restaurant on EXPLORA I, with paper lanterns, red banquettes and a cherry-blossom canopy, on the first night of the Athens to Istanbul cruise.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The netted sports court on EXPLORA I's top deck at dusk, set up for pickleball, as the ship crossed the Sea of Marmara toward Istanbul.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A game of pickleball on EXPLORA I's deck court at dusk, with the islands of the Sea of Marmara behind, on the last evening before Istanbul.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A hands-on cooking class at Chef's Kitchen by Explora Journeys aboard EXPLORA I, with the sea through the windows on the sail toward Istanbul.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Scallops baked in tomato sauce with crumbled feta and herbs, a Greek-style dish from the Chef's Kitchen cooking class on EXPLORA I.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Lobby Bar on EXPLORA I, seen from the grand staircase on embarkation day in Piraeus. It was the start of a seven-night Explora Journeys cruise from Athens to Istanbul.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sakura, the pan-Asian restaurant on EXPLORA I, with paper lanterns, red banquettes and a cherry-blossom canopy, on the first night of the Athens to Istanbul cruise.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Burrata with strawberries, toasted pine nuts, lime zest and herb oil, a dinner course aboard EXPLORA I as the ship sailed north from Patmos.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Lobster pad thai with crushed peanuts, spring onion and lime at Sakura on EXPLORA I, part of the first evening's dinner on an Explora Journeys Aegean cruise.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A frozen dessert with poached pear and crumble, next to a cocktail with dried orange, to finish dinner at Sakura on EXPLORA I as the ship sailed from Athens into the Aegean.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A herb crab cake with spiced sauce and a crisp vegetable salad at Fil Rouge, the international restaurant on EXPLORA I, on the evening sail from Thessaloniki.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Woven parasols and cushioned daybeds line a sandy Mykonos beach on a shore day of EXPLORA I's Athens to Istanbul cruise through the Greek islands.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A rope swing and white-canopied daybeds on the sand, facing the Aegean, on a beach day in Mykonos during a Greek islands cruise on EXPLORA I.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>An early-evening walk along a palm-lined path past designer boutiques in Mykonos, a stop on EXPLORA I's seven-night cruise from Athens to Istanbul.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The sun sets over a small stone amphitheatre, a basketball court and the whitewashed houses of Mykonos Town, closing a day ashore on an Aegean cruise with Explora Journeys.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Pink bougainvillea over a whitewashed house and a weathered blue door on Patmos, the Dodecanese island known for the Cave of the Apocalypse and the Monastery of Saint John.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The restored stone windmills on the ridge at Chora, Patmos, a short walk from the Monastery of Saint John the Theologian, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The view from the hilltop village of Chora down to Skala, the harbour where cruise guests come ashore on Patmos, with the open Aegean beyond.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Monasteries on sandstone pillars at Meteora in central Greece, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and an inland excursion on EXPLORA I's Aegean cruise.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Kavala seen from the walls of its hilltop fortress, with the castle's open-air theatre below and the arches of the Kamares aqueduct rising through town. Kavala is the northern Greece stop on EXPLORA I's route to Istanbul.</image:caption>
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