{"id":1902,"date":"2014-07-03T16:47:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T15:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=1902"},"modified":"2014-07-03T16:54:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T15:54:55","slug":"a-gallery-of-finikas-and-ano-syros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=1902","title":{"rendered":"A gallery of Finikas and Ano Syros"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are two\u00a0of the suburbs on the island of Syros. \u00a0Finikas is a resort area and the marina is here.<\/p>\n

Here is how our day started. \u00a0I went out early and took a few photos of Finikas Marina and some of the beautiful boats here. \u00a0One which is quite beautiful looks like it may be a canal boat. \u00a0Note the clear water under the tiller and the varnish. \u00a0It makes me think of Swanno and Richard Lawson, no one varnishes like those two.<\/p>\n

\"Tiller<\/a>
Tiller of the canal boat, clear water<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The smallest fuel truck in the world came and brought us fuel. No going to the fuel wharf for us, they just drive right to us.<\/p>\n

\"Small<\/a>
Small fuel truck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Our errands done, we wanted to \u00a0see if the bay in Hermoupolis was as quiet as Finikas. \u00a0The boats there were rolling side to side. \u00a0That was before the ferry came into the bay. \u00a0Finikas Marina is much calmer in the meltemi, although perhaps not in a southerly or westerly. \u00a0We continued on our way to the Old medieval town of Ano Syros, which was the Venetian fortress and remains the Catholic part of town. \u00a0It is above\u00a0the city of Hermoupolis.\u00a0\u00a0It is a town of winding streets and stairs, not only to foil pirates by\u00a0battling them one at a time and also to offer protection from the wind.<\/p>\n

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\"Ano<\/a>
Ano Syros<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This area is famous for being the birthplace of Greek Blues and there is a monument to Vamvarkis, a celebrated ‘rebetiko’ or blues singer. \u00a0He is known in Greece as the Patriarch of the Blues Singers.<\/p>\n

\"Colorful<\/a>
Colorful monument to Markos Vamvarkis, the renown Greek Blues singer, from Ano Syros.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The views are always at the top, aren’t they?<\/p>\n

\"Hermoupolis\"<\/a>
Hermoupolis – looking down onto St Nicholas Church<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"The<\/a>
The Bay of Hermoupolis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY, Y’ALL!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These are two\u00a0of the suburbs on the island of Syros. \u00a0Finikas is a resort area and the marina is here. Here is how our day started. \u00a0I went out early and took a few photos of Finikas Marina and some of the beautiful boats here. \u00a0One which is quite beautiful looks like it may be … Continue reading A gallery of Finikas and Ano Syros<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,7,47,41,9,52,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-2","category-dreams","category-greece","category-greek-islands","category-history","category-meltemi","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VxXq-uG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1902"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1916,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions\/1916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}