Symi Chat

Hello giftschrank and welcome to the noticeboard. The oldest ship I can remember from the 1980s was the Panormitis. It used to do the Wednesday morning run, I think, from Kos to Symi and then Rhodes. I do remember it left Symi at 05.45am. The Colossus and the Panormitis were the oldest boats and I think they were both scrapped. I have emailed a friend on Symi to find out the date.

Brings back memories, our first trip September 1998, and another welcome to Giftschrank.

I recall sailing down from Kos to Symi overnight on the Panormitis in ?1983, calling en route at Nissyros and Tilos. I 'slept' on deck but actually spent the hours watching the most amazing stars through the iron framework which would have supported a canopy, had the dear old rust bucket run to such a thing. We landed on Symi at dawn - I still have some photos which I took on the harbourside when there was absolutely no-one around.

Panormitis was succeeded by, I think, the Miaioulis - another one which must by now be many fathoms under.

Does anybody remember the Kamiros and Omiros and also Iyalissos ,i traveled on all three in 1982 but can't remember if Symi was part of their route.

Good evening (here in Vienna), my friends!

I am now uploding a mediaval film from 1990 which shows the ferry "NIKOLAOS X" between Rhodes and Simi. It's nothing special, but it brings back a lot of memories (and it shows my first footsteps using a camera).
When the upload is complete, i will post the URL.

Yassas, and have a lot of Retsina!

Here it is:

Another nice video - thanks Giftscrank. I wonder how many thousands of day trippers the Nikolaos has taken to Symi and back over the years?

Your video taken from the light aircraft was discussed a few months ago Were you the pilot?

Nice one Giftschrank, the days of Nikolaos X, Symi 11 and others racing to Symi with their full load of day visitors seem to be a thing of the past, or is it my immagination. The numbers of day visitors seem less over the past trips.

Hi, Allan!
No, I wasn't the pilot. At that time I was extremely interested in aviation, and by coincidence I found in the hotel an announcement in a local newspaper from a pilot who did roundflights. Five minutes later I called him, one day later we were on flight. Today Stelios has his Pilot academy:
I hope to see him next year again to take new films with a better camera and much more experience how to use a camera!

Hi Giftschrank

First of all welcome to the website, nice to have you with us .

Alas all of the stuff you are posting is before my time of knowing Symi however it's great for me to be able to gain an insight into times past. Thank you .