Joan Henley
Passalimani: A Notebook Sketch
In the time of Demosthenes in the 4 th century BC, the ship-sheds of Passalimani held 196 triremes — the small, manoeuvreable warships of Athens. Now it holds about the same number of boats afloat — small sailing ships, luxury motor cruisers, lavishly varnished schooners with imported everything, family yachts and a lot of little dinghies which hang on, like ticks, along the shallow edges of the harbour.
