{"id":104,"date":"2013-08-31T19:19:35","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T18:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/syros2013\/?p=104"},"modified":"2013-08-31T19:32:57","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T18:32:57","slug":"vaporia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/syros2013\/2013\/08\/31\/vaporia\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Time to Ermoupoli: Vaporia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ermoupoli\"<\/a>\"\u039d\u03bf\u03bc\u03b1\u03c1\u03c7\u03af\u03b1<\/a>I wrote a few days ago about our first visit to Ermoupoli<\/a>, when we walked around the Vrontado district (the hill on the right in the photo above). We actually took the bus in to Ermoupoli 3 times. The second time, we walked around Vaporia (\u0392\u03b1\u03c0\u03cc\u03c1\u03b9\u03b1) – the district hidden by that big boat… \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n

Before we went to Vaporia though we went back to \u038c\u03b4\u03bf\u03c2 \u03a7\u03af\u03bf\u03c5 – the main shopping street – to do some shopping. Every year I like to buy myself a Greek t-shirt (Greek t-shirts make up 97% of what is in my chest of drawers, many of the ones I brought years ago still fit me).<\/p>\n

I did the same this year – but was able to get it printed with my own personal message on it. I found a nice polo shirt which had a nice Syros design on the front, and on the back I got them to print:<\/p>\n

\u0393\u03b1\u03bb\u03b7\u03c3\u03c3\u03ac\u03c2 – \u0391\u03cd\u03b3\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2 2013
\nwww.fred-hart.gr<\/p>\n

Or – to put it another way – “Galissas – August 2013” followed by the URL of my Greek website.<\/p>\n

Mum and I also worked out something to print on a shirt for Dad – which we also got printed, and gave him for his birthday a couple of weeks ago after we had returned to the UK.<\/p>\n

We printed for him:<\/p>\n

\n

\u0394\u03b5\u03bd \u03b5\u03bb\u03c0\u03af\u03b6\u03c9 \u03c4\u03af\u03c0\u03bf\u03c4\u03b1
\n\u0394\u03b5\u03bd \u03c6\u03bf\u03b2\u03ac\u03bc\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c4\u03af\u03c0\u03bf\u03c4\u03b1
\n\u0395\u03af\u03bc\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c0\u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u03c1\u03b5\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2
\n25 \u03c7\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd\u03b9\u03ac<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Which translates in to English as:<\/p>\n

\n

I don’t hope for anything
\nI’m not afraid of anything
\nI am married
\n25 years<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He will be made to wear this t-shirt next week – Mum & Dad’s 25th anniversary takes place on September 10th!<\/p>\n

Vaporia<\/h2>\n

Vaporia is not up a big hill, and it takes you away from the main touristy areas of the city – we walked through the back streets, past the old building of the Cyclades Prefecture (\u039d\u03bf\u03bc\u03b1\u03c1\u03c7\u03af\u03b1 \u039a\u03c5\u03ba\u03bb\u03ac\u03b4\u03c9\u03bd), and also past the church of Ag. Nikolaos.<\/p>\n

\"Corrie\"Church<\/a>The walk around Vaporia took us past a few places where you could get down to the sea to swim – many of them a bit exposed to the wind.<\/p>\n

We found a brilliant spot though back towards the harbour – there is an area equipped with steps down in to the sea and proper diving boards where many of the locals were swimming. Right next to a massive ship moored in the harbour, it was sheltered as within the harbour walls.<\/p>\n

It did feel very strange swimming so close to such a big ship… it is certainly something you wouldn’t want to do at all somewhere like Southampton!<\/p>\n

\"Swimming\"<\/a>As you are beginning to see by now, Ermoupoli isn’t just another ‘Aegean island harbour’, but rather, a proper capital city. The history of the city is still very evident in many of the buildings, making it somewhere you can go for a good day out.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow:<\/strong> I will be writing about our boat trip to the beach of Grammata.<\/p>\n

Click to View Map of Ermoupoli<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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