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Dave Saari

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I split my time between my summer home on the North Shore of Lake Superior and a condo in Minneapolis, having retired from a 40-year career as an Aerospace Engineer in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. I've written eight mystery novels so far and plan to keep on writing unless it stops being fun. ...more

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Pat and Dave’s Mediterranean Moments – PART 3: Corfu, Olympia, Santorini, Athens

Welcome back for Part 3 of this travelogue series. Part 2 concluded as we sailed away from Kotor, Montenegro, down the Adriatic Sea toward Greece. Here’s a map showing the places I’ll describe in this part of the travelogue: Corfu, Olympia, Santorini, and Athens, all in Greece.

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