Greek petrol stations....

by **Kon** » 02 Aug 2007, 06:17

Next time you visit a greek petrol station leave your phone home

by **Adriana** » 02 Aug 2007, 07:47

Hmm. Anyone who has seen the two bunkering trucks on Symi can relate to this one! Just as well yacht diesel isn't as combustible as petrol! :idea:

by **Kojak** » 02 Aug 2007, 11:56

I've said this before on here, but I'll never forget the little petrol station that used to be up the street from the taxi rank in Mandraki. The sight of the attendant calmly filling up a car with a cigarette hanging from his mouth caused me to leave the area immediately.

by **maziemoo** » 02 Aug 2007, 12:00

I know it wasn't funny for you Kojak but I'm killing myself laughing at the thought of this

. Sometimes you just can't believe what you're seeing can you?

by **Kojak** » 02 Aug 2007, 14:49

It was the middle of August, Mazie, extremely hot, but I managed to move quite quickly!

by **maziemoo** » 02 Aug 2007, 15:04

I guess you had every incentive mate

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by **Adriana** » 02 Aug 2007, 15:29

Saw a motor yacht blow up in Jaffa once when the skipper turned the ignition without remembering to run the blower first to get rid of the petrol fumes.

Luckily there were enough yachtsmen around with fire extinguishers so the fire didn't spread but the motor yacht burned down to the water line. A sobering event.

by **maziemoo** » 06 Aug 2007, 16:17

Just been on to the Symidream website and read something there about the fireworks display that followed the festival taking place near the petrol station

!

Can't help feeling Symi may be best avoided at this time of year and that there's a distinct possibility at some point it may not be there to visit at all

!

by **Kojak** » 06 Aug 2007, 20:19

I was there one year at Easter. We followed the "Judas" down from Chorio and alomg the quayside to the clock tower. The effigy was stuffed with fireworks and then George the Postman wandered up with a bottle of petrol, doused it liberally and casually stuffed a bit of burning paper up it's jumper!. it was a magnificent blaze, fireworks exploding everywhere and in every direction..... and the crowd only about 10 ft away

Having said that, no-one was hurt. If it had been in the Health and Safety prone UK, we'd have had to view it through binoculars!

by **Kon** » 07 Aug 2007, 03:27

Maziemoo using small firecrackers is nothing its when the big guns like dynamite come out that you think you are in the middle of a war zone.

by **MacDuff** » 07 Aug 2007, 04:03

Bet it turned Jaffa orange Adriana

by **maziemoo** » 07 Aug 2007, 16:51

When I visited last year Kon I witnessed the remnants of dynamite blasting alongside the road out of Symi where the roadside barrier had been blasted away

during some over exuberate celebrations!

I know I shouldn't laugh, but I do find it all rather quaint and as such is the quirkiness of the Greeks that I love :mrgreen:

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