#i like to think rian asked the greek crew for a very stupid nistake you could make with greek geography and the crew was more than willing

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I need non Greek people to understand the ridiculousness of Miles confusing the Agean Sea with the Ionian sea, because the joke may fly over your head if you're not familiar with Greek geography

Anyways, the Agean is in red and the Ionian is in purple.

Also, there's an Extra layer to the joke:

While it's not explicitly stated in the film, I assume the characters were originally in Athens before leaving for the private island. The reason I assume that is that the shootings in Greece took place in Palaio Faliro, which belongs to the southern suburbs of Athens. Also it has the biggest airport of the country, so it makes sense they would find an airplane landing in Athens more easily than, say, an airplane landing in Thessaloniki.

The thing is... No ships from Athens or the general area (Pireaus/Rafina) leave for the Ionian sea. Like, you can't take a ship from Athens and go to Corfu, for example. Or any other island. There's no company that has ships leaving from Athens that go to the Ionian sea. You go to the islands by plane or by taking a boat from the ports on the western mainland of the country (my family and I took a boat from Igoumenitsa to go to Corfu).

Sure they had a private boat. But the trip would take several hours, maybe even a full day. And their actual trip only took two hours.