{"id":6907,"date":"2026-10-28T10:32:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T10:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/?p=6907"},"modified":"2026-10-28T10:48:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T10:48:57","slug":"the-ganges-of-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/10\/28\/the-ganges-of-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Ganges&#8221; of Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #004e72;\">The &#8220;Ganges&#8221; of Greece<br \/>\nA Hellenic History<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/no4arearna.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/KE-Poros-1-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6910 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/no4arearna.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/KE-Poros-1-1.jpg?resize=300%2C193&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/no4arearna.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/KE-Poros-1-1.jpg?resize=300%2C193&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/no4arearna.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/KE-Poros-1-1.jpg?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Should any Shipmates be holidaying in Athens and fancy a bit of Naval history on nearby Poros island (only an hour on the fast boats from Piraeus), a visit to \u2018K.E. Poros Training Centre\u2019 provides an interesting link with British Naval history and something to combine with maybe a pleasant lunch and wander round picturesque Poros town.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The Centre serves as both a holiday resort for Warrant O\ufb03cers and Petty O\ufb03cers of the Hellenic (Greek) Navy, and as a training base for conscripts &amp; volunteers. Providing a base for holidays is something of a tradition, since what is now the Administration building use to be the summer palace of King Otto and Queen Amalia in the mid-1800s. \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #1e73be;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #1e73be;\" href=\"https:\/\/rnaportland.org\/information\/the-ganges-of-greece-a-hellenic-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More \u2192<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Ganges&#8221; of Greece A Hellenic History Should any Shipmates be holidaying in Athens and fancy a bit of Naval[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticeboard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R0mQ-1Np","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6907"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6911,"href":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907\/revisions\/6911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}