You know how you sometimes become fascinated by something? At least, I do, now and then. Well, my mind was recently set to wondering about a boat. This white one you can see in this photo…
I noticed it there one day and thought nothing of it, because we get them like this quite a lot in the summer. However, when it was still there a few days later, I began to wonder why. Normally, you’d expect something like this to be here a day or so and then speed off to another place, but not this one. It was still there after a week, and I was wondering, perhaps the very rich person who owns it also has a holiday home here and has used their yacht to ‘drive’ to the house in the country. Maybe.
It was still there about ten days after I first saw it, and which point I thought it was very strange, but as long as the over-wealthy people on it came ashore now and then and spent a few Euros in the village, that was alright. Of course, I don’t know if they did, but I do know they stayed in the same place a long time. Maybe there was an engine problem? Then I thought, if you could afford a boat like that, you’d be able to get it repaired double time.
In the end, I looked it up and found out it was called Boadicea, and it was a charter yacht. Very spacious, with room for up to 18 guests in nine cabins and with a crew of 22 staff. Art Deco style interior, cinema, spa, swimming pool, in fact, everything you need to completely enjoy the authentic Greek lifestyle and Aegean Sea. Best of all, it only costs you from €750,000 a week plus expenses. According to its charter website, in the ‘Low Season’ (May to September), it cruises the Med calling at Croatia, Malta, Monaca and Montenegro. Perhaps it was here for nearly two weeks without moving because they were lost and had paused to work out where they were. Perhaps they just loved looking at Symi from a distance. Whatever. Today, after some typing, I intend to head downtown where I have a new, cheap pocket camera waiting for collection. Maybe it will take some more interesting photos than the ones I take. We shall see.
