Thursday 8 March 2012

What - no ferries from Naxos to Piraeus on a Saturday??!

Don't worry about the heading - this is about travel in March.  I hope "normal service" will have resumed by next month when more tourists start visiting Greece. 

But at present there are no ferries from Naxos to Piraeus on a Saturday.  See http://www.gtp.gr/

There are ferries leaving on Monday to Friday at 09.30.; and ferries leaving at 19.15 on every day except Saturday.  The evening ferries have a slight problem - they arrive at Piraeus at 01.00.  The last metro used to be at midnight, perhaps earlier with the cutbacks...................  Why does the ferry arrive so late - the ferries are timetabled to travel more slowly.

If you want to go from Naxos to the mainland by "scenic" route, there is another possibility on Wednesdays.  leave Naxos at 15.05 on the Aqua Spirit, and travel via Paros, Syros, Kythnos and Kea, and reach Lavrio (on the mainland, but about a two hour bus ride to Athens, if there is a bus at that time of night!) at 23.30. 

So - get on that ferry - but first find your ferry!

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