We had a splash of red in the harbour yesterday as the F/B Ariadne is currently calling in on a Monday. This Super Fast Ferries ferry leaves Piraeus at 18.00 on a Sunday and arrives in Symi at 11.20 the next day, according to their schedule. That’s 17 hours and 20 minutes, at a basic cost of €65.00. If you come down the next day on the Blue Star 2, you also leave at 18.00, but you arrive 14 hours and 40 minutes later, at 08.40 on Tuesday, also for the basic price of €65.00. I say basic price, because I’m guessing that’s for a foot passenger with no booked seat, but if you were to book a cabin or to bring a car, you’d be paying a lot more. I reckon you should then be charged again for bringing a car to an island that has only one road, no municipal parking, and gawd knows how many car and bike rental places, but that’s me. And here’s the ship arriving.
And here’s the ship leaving some time later. A long time later, as this was in the evening, and it had been to Rhodes and back in between.
Also discovered on my return home yesterday afternoon was a shell. Not an oyster shell with some nymph coyly ascending, nor a military kind of shell such as H and I found up at the Ponticokastro that time, nor even an ‘Oh ’chelle,’ from Eastenders or other fantasy-based light entertainment (light?!), but the shell of a cicada, which probably isn’t called a shell at all. Exoskeleton? Whatever. They shed their skin, and this one blew in whole from the courtyard. Not very easy to photograph something virtually transparent, but here you go…
And there I go, off to find delicious ways to cause crime and mayhem in Victorian London and then solve the case by some devious means. Have a good one.
