Martin Heidegger's first trip to Greece - a gift from his wife - took many years of preparation. Great was the fear that - with greater force than would have obtained external circumstances - time and again delayed the game. "But the gift came to be consummated." In the spring of 1962 the threshold of sleep was exceeded, the voyage was undertaken, which he took by boat from Venice to the Peloponnese, to Crete and Rhodes; Then through the Aegean - with Delos as its center - to Athens, Aegina and Delphi, and back to Venice.