The Anonymous Widower

A Fast Ferry Home

It may have been run by a company called Fast Ferries, but it still took four hours to get me from Tinos to Rafina on the Greek mainland.

A Fast Ferry

I hadn’t eaten any food since a very good moussaka on the Sunday at lunch time and as I left early for the ferry, I didn’t get any breakfast.  At least a supermarket was open on Tinos, at which I was able to purchase a couple of bananas. Where would coeliacs be without them?

On the ferry it was just coffee and chocolate and there weren’t even any Greek salads.

It didn’t get any better at the airport either, as there wasn’t anything in the cafes which didn’t have a large slug of gluten.  No Greek salads and not even any of those sesame snacks you usually find in Greece.

So I had a choice of either getting the midday easyJet flight or retreating to Athens and getting a flight on the next day.

I chose the flight, as it appeared there were quite a few seats and as it turned out, two of us had three seats for the journey to Gatwick.

So the flight was good value because of the extra room.

I was also back home in good time.

March 31, 2011 - Posted by AnonW | Food, Transport/Travel | Coeliac/Gluten-Free, Ferry, Flying, Greece