
7 May 2014
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April 30 – May 1
The ferry left Piraeus at 7:00pm.We had a cabin on the Hellenic Seaways ferry.Piraeus is a busy port.Not with shipping but with ferries and cruise ships.
We arrived on Chios at the ferry terminal around 4:30AM – a bit earlier than we had intended.The phone call waking us up in our room on the ferry at 4:00AM cut our sleeping short.The streets, still dark, were a mixture of ferry travelers arriving and people leaving the lively bar`. Several cafes were open for the ferry traffic in addition to the people leaving the bar, still lively at 6AM stopping for coffee and/or breakfast at the several open cafes.
Chios is known for Mastic gum and the economy doesn’t suffer like the rest of Greece because many Ship owners and ship captains live there.
We drove down the coast to Karfas and found a hotel called the Golden Sands.It was one of the few that actually had beach front.We checked in early.After a walk on the beach, we went to rest our heads – woke up after noon.We went into town for the afternoon.
- Mike at the port with the busy cruise ship traffic
- Bike at ferry
- Mike and our boat
- Beverly and the ferry
- Mike parking bike on ferry
- Nice room
- Beverly in sunset on the ferry
- Mike at Golden Sands hotel
- Mike with our Greek
and wine
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