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The ship was departured at 13.30 we rrived at 12.15 …!!!
There are 3 ferries that goes from greece to italy and italy to greece…!
1. SUPERFAST FERRIES
2. ANEK LINES
3. MINOAN LINES
Because of the ecomomy crisis in greece the SUPERFAST FERRIES and the ANEK LINES became one company SUPERFAST-ANEK….!!
My tickets was booked with SUPERFAST FERIES…But now I was returning with ANEK ship….!
Think that we are in the midle of the summer holidays and people of 2 ships(SUPERFAST-ANEK) was getting in ONE ship…!!!
The waiting to board was in the sun…!!!Late departure 1.30hour(15.00)…!!!
We booked airplane type seats when we arrive at the seats the condition was…..=>the seats was diferent colors and small like a 50s bus,all the people (I don’t say nationality) put their sleeping bags between the corridor of the seats the aircontition was none…And the answer that I hear on the radio of a crew member for the solution of the aircontition was==è
“RELAX THE PROBLEM WILL BE FIXED,SOON IT WILL BECOME NIGHT AND IT WILL BE COOL DOWN!!!!”
Yes, thats the answer of an officer in a greek ferrie…!! I samed to be greek!!!
We stay in a lounge-bar until 22.30 and then we try to find a place to place to sleep…!!!
Until 02.00 we are wondered like 3rd class member of titanic…!!!
Finally we sleep in internal corridor of the ship for 2 hours 03.00-05.00 in that time they wake up us to vacum the corridor….!
About 06.00 the lounge-bar opened and we seat in a couch until 07.00…!!
That was the time that the ship approaches to the port of igoumenitsa…!!!
From there we make 383km(238mi) with 2 hours sleep )to our home in Polygyros!!!!
That was the worst trip I have done in my life…..!!!Everything gone bad…!!!
I want to thank my wife for coming with me(and don’t take the plane back home) and say nothing(only a little) to all this situations…!!!
Thank you for reading my trip and sorry for my mistakes in english language…!!!
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I smiled when I read about your trip as reminded me I'm not the only person who encounters torrential rain whilst on a summer holiday. At least your bike got fixed quickly and you were both safe. In time, you'll only remember the best bits
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Lake Garda
Glad you are home safe. I enjoyed your photographs.
My girlfriend and I went to Lake Garda for our holiday in June, 3rd to 10th, it rained every day with hailstones, thunder and lightning storms. There was drier weather at home in Scotland
Regards, Stewart.
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Originally Posted by pheonix
I smiled when I read about your trip as reminded me I'm not the only person who encounters torrential rain whilst on a summer holiday. At least your bike got fixed quickly and you were both safe. In time, you'll only remember the best bits
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I'm glad that im not the only one also, and im glad that you like my story!
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Glad you are home safe. I enjoyed your photographs.
My girlfriend and I went to Lake Garda for our holiday in June, 3rd to 10th, it rained every day with hailstones, thunder and lightning storms. There was drier weather at home in Scotland
Regards, Stewart.
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I think that Scotland has better weather than the mountains of lake Como in the summer...!Thank you for reading my story.
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I enjoyed your story, the photo's and the video's . I have spent many a happy hour riding around those parts but never had the adventure you had , everyday an adventure !!!
On our recent RTW tour we never even had a puncture ! and the worse weather we encountered was on the edge of a tornado in Virginia , see video harrisonburg virginia - YouTube
Hope all goes well on your next adventure
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Originally Posted by bushman_uk
I enjoyed your story, the photo's and the video's . I have spent many a happy hour riding around those parts but never had the adventure you had , everyday an adventure !!!
On our recent RTW tour we never even had a puncture ! and the worse weather we encountered was on the edge of a tornado in Virginia , see video harrisonburg virginia - YouTube
Hope all goes well on your next adventure
Mark
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Thank you bushman for the wishes...!
I hope my next adventure to be with less problems!
I think that desert calls me!
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