Yesterday was a day of boats. Mind you, from now until October will hopefully see a day of boats every day, but yesterday, I noticed and counted for the first time this season. Soon, I intend to put a widget up on the blog, over there >> in the right-hand column. It will be a link to FerryScanner.com, a place where you can book ferries in Greece; Athens to Symi, Rhodes to Symi, Kos to Symi, anywhere to anywhere… That kind of thing. I just need to sort out a bit of code and I’ll set it up. But that’s not the reason I’m mentioning the boats…
I can’t remember when the day boats started coming in last year, but this year, we’ve had a few calling in since early April, if not late March. Yesterday, as far as I saw, we had:
The Blue Star
Dodecanese Seaways (catamaran)
Dodecanese Seaways (Panagia Skiadeni)
The Sebeco (twice)
The King Saron (Sea Dreams)
The SP Cruises (Zeus)
All of those, apart from SP, you can book to travel to/from Rhodes as a standard foot passenger as well as a day tripper. The Blue Star and Panagia can take cars/bikes/goats, and there is limited room for bikes and maybe two cars on the catamaran.
(Taken last year)
The point is, there were lots of people on these boats, which is good news for the harbour – as long as we don’t run out of water because we haven’t had any rain, and apparently, we’re in for a long, dry summer with the potential for fires, droughts and other biblical events. And the other point is, hopefully, from tomorrow, you will be able to book your ferry from a link on this site, so if you’re a regular reader of my vaguely island-life-related nonsense, you can arrange part of your Symi travel directly from here. Actually, you can take a look now and see if/how it works as I’ve already included the link (above) and I’ll do it again now:
