New ferry service
Kalo mina! (Happy first of the month.)
Wondering who was blasting their horn, we looked out of the window yesterday evening to see a ferry coming into the harbour and found the Stavros, a ship of the SAOS Ferries line pulling into Yialos. It backed up to the clocktower, stayed a few minutes and went again. Later, we found out that it’s a new connection, calling a couple of times per week, and next time will call in at the new jetty where the Blue Star docks. I need to go to the Symi Tours page on Facebook to find out more details, and I expect Andy will have something on his Symi Travel Blog when there are more details. I saw a couple of comments about ‘Why now?’ and ‘Is it needed?’ and so on, and another that told me the route/ferry was highly subsidised and so is more or less being paid to call in. I’m sure there will be clearer details in time, but as things start to open up again and travel becomes easier for those who need to, a couple of new crossings to Rhodes and back per week will be a help.
In other news, as they say… Some lockdown measures start to be eased as of May 4th (and we’ve done the “May the 4th be with you” gags early this year, so thanks, but no need), and already I’ve seen more people out and about, at a distance, and adjusting back to liberty. However, it is to be highly restrained liberty and could go back to square one at the drop of a hat if the number of cases starts to rise. And in other-other news, Neil walked to Nimborio and back the other day, so I have some photos to show you and, as we’re heading into the weekend, I thought I’d put a few up here to see you through.
