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Bonita 2025, off again for two weeks

July 7, 1925. Finally, the great departure! No more waiting—it takes a good two months to reach Athens. To look presentable, the hull should have been completely repainted, but the workers never came to finish the job... So Bonita sets sail with one side unfinished! Photographer Léon Mouret, with tears in his eyes, calls out to the young sailors: “Farewell, children!” One last salute to the Bonne Mère (the Virgin Mary), and the sails are hoisted! Ella Maillart recounts: "At 2

1925: Ella Maillart’s Logbook, June 27, 1925 It’s been about a week since Yvonne left Assisi to join me in the third-class carriage that dropped us off in Marseille one morning with a gentle mistral blowing. We traveled fairly well, even though in the carriage some Italians sang all night about an Ella who had her hair cut... and to silence them, all we could do was offer them our cigarettes. At 5 a.m., the Old Port looks just like I remember it, and I recognize the two caret