A British Sailor's Odyssey Through Homer's Ionian Islands

British journalist Kevin Rushby set sail through the Ionian Islands in search of the landscapes that inspired Homer's "Odyssey" — and, more recently, Christopher Nolan's blockbuster film adaptation — on a weeklong voyage beginning and ending in Palairos, in the Aitoloakarnania region. Mr. Rushby traveled with his wife, Sophie, sailing for the first time, and multilingual captain Fabian aboard a boat named "Kafar," which Fabian translated as "Depressed Cockroach." Shortly after departure, t...

By ANTHEE CARASSAVA