text: There are ferry routes between Patras and Igoumenitsa , Greece , and Brindisi and Ancona , Italy , that cross the east and north of the Ionian Sea , and from Piraeus westward .
simplified: There are ferry routes between Patras , Greece and Brindisi and Ancona , Italy , that cross the east and north of the Ionian Sea , and from Piraeus westward .