From my balcony this morning another view of a 'fast' ferry being towed into Piraeus -slowly.
It's quite a common sight here in the summer and provides some entertainment to start my day.
(it looks an awfully long way away in the photos, but its not far out beyond where people swim)
Update: more tugs arrived....
Then they turned it round and tried to strrrreeetttttcccchhh it.....
(and by the way you can just see the faint outline of Poros behind the ferry in the first pic. The nearer island is Aegina.)
Hari OM
ReplyDeleteWell, all I can say is that I am super glad the Gourock-Dunoon ferries are considerably more reliable!!! (Fun to watch though, Tigger - who needs television when you have a window to the world?!!) Hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
We had to look that up on a map. We found a Fort Matilda near the Gourock ferry terminal - F has a niece called Matilda. (She came to visit us in England once.) Furrings and head-butts to you. Mr T
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DeleteMOL (meow out loud)... yes, well... Fort Matilda is one of those less than attractive places you mention to Cathy - the Clydeside still shows something of its industrial heritage. But much has changed for the better also and the views of water and the high hills make up for much!!! Yxx
Now that's the sort of thing that I'd like to see from my balcony. We can just see the lights of ferries on the horizon at night but much more interesting to watch a sea tow . You have the greatest view from your balcony. Must be hard not to spend too much time out there
ReplyDeleteYou've got to admit the lights are pretty at night - we can also see them way out at sea. Sometime the lights on the big container ships make a really long line of dots that had us guessing until we worked out what it was.
DeleteI'd stay home and watch the show if I was you Tigger. Like Yamini said, your balcony is your window to the world......and all that jazz!
ReplyDeleteI was in Piraeus once, a few years ago. Walked round the harbour (and those steep cobbly streets) then got a boat....or rather a ship...and sailed away. Came back 3 weeks later and tootled off home again.
A tourist attraction in itself Piraeus ain't (which in so many ways is good for us), but the area around the harbour is one of its least attractive 'assets'; as is the case with most port towns. (Ask Aunty YAM - there are or were probably some fairly industrial parts of the coastline around Glasgow.) Our little stretch of coast has eucalyptus trees, with only the passing ships to suggest there is big port round the corner somewhere. We hope you enjoyed your trip to Greek islands.
DeleteI would love to have a view of the water from my place.
ReplyDeleteI don’t live far from the bay. Only a five to ten minute drive
But I can’t see it
Yeah, view is nice, but being a coast road the cruise-by traffic is intense. Two blocks back at Aunty Pili's place it is dead quiet and she still has a view of the sea. Mind you she has the apartment at the top of her building, at the top of the hill - so her view is to 'die-for' according to humans. Remarkably she also gets less wind than we do.
DeleteSea 'breeze' is a downside of living here.