A Tight Fit

 The car ferries are busy especially on weekends.  There is a queue of cars on the Galatas side waiting to cross to Poros and often a queue on Poros with cars waiting to go onwards to Athens or Nafplio

It's a 10 minute ferry ride 1,30 euros for foot passengers, 7.40 for car and driver

If there's a queue the cars and trucks are packed on tight

The parking guys are good. You're stopped literally at the last minute before you bump into the car in front

Packed to the gills

Bikes and scooters fill in any spaces

If one trucks jolts a few inches forward there'll be a chain reaction and we'll all end up in the water

The doors can't be closed of course

Thankfully this day the ride was smooth and uneventful. It's a 10 minute crossing. 

Visitors all get out and climb up to the top deck to take photos and chatter excitedly about their holiday. 

 

Sometimes we are held up waiting for the ambulance taking a patient to a hospital on the mainland.  We don't complain about that.  

If the big oil tanker turns up full of fuel for the 2 Poros petrol stations there's an extra sailing. The tanker goes on by itself.  No other cars or foot passengers allowed.  So we all wait while it takes the tanker over and returns. 

Sailings are every half hour from 7 in the morning till 10.30 at night, in the summer