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Comment on Pythagoras of Samos by Roy

Roy — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 06:02:09 +0000

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Comment on Fires on Samos by Steve

Steve — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:54:19 +0000

Sorry to hear about the fires. My wife and I stayed four nights in Pythagoreion at Hotel Labito in May this year (2010). We were on our way from European capitals to our eventual return to Australia via Istanbul. It was our first experience of a Greek Island and it was great. One of the things which struck me was the excellent but poorly attended new EU funded museum in Pythagoreion. It opened in November 2009 and is twice the size of the Samos Town museum. While we were there it was open from 8am to 8pm with very few visitors. I meant to try to get management details so that I could talk to them online and give my Australian university public relations students a project to promote it. But holiday mode made me too slack. Does anybody have a contact there? Can someone copy and forward this message as an email? Steve Mackey

Comment on Fires on Samos by K. Popping

K. Popping — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:42:30 +0000

Large appreciation for fire people on the ground and in air. Here a video where they are in action in Kokkari on 29-07-2010

Comment on Fires on Samos by Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:31:59 +0000

I too was there, and although the situation was scary, the local greek people were amazing. We were a large party staying at Mando. When we saw the fire approaching we rang our rep who said the fire was under control, after a wait we rang again, it did not look as if it was under control. Later a rep arrived telling us to fetch passports and tickets and informed us busses would be arriving and taking us out of Votsalakia. Our hotel manager calmed us all down, offered us wet towels to cover our faces with. The locals told us the beach was safe, they were all so calm, telling us they had tried it so many times. Busses eventually arrived, unfortunately some selfish tourists made the evacuation harder by bringing large suitcases onto the busses. Under the circumstances I felt the travel agencies and the local community couldn’t have done more for us. Yes, we had a long wait before we eventually got a nights sleep in a hotel,but with it being high season I hadn’t expected they would be able to get us into accomodation. Everybody worked soo hard to make sure the tourist could return the next day. Our apartments had been cleaned so they gleamed, curtains had been washed, yes, we could smell the smoke, and the town felt a bit eerie on our return, but the locals soon got the holiday spirit back in all of us. A big thank you to a very well managed situation.

Comment on Fires on Samos by Mr Glen Holland

Mr Glen Holland — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:29:48 +0000

Hi, George. i have been to votsalakia 3 times and know how wonderful all the locals are, i have many friends there, i appreciate all the work the fire service and the police provided, i would have helped myself had i had some information, votsalakia and smaragdas is the most wonderful place i have ever stayed in the world, the point i was trying to make is that i was told to stay on the beach and wait for a coach that wasnt coming, i would have gathered the party i was with and ran if i knew which way to run,…. i am presuming the Goerge i am mailing is infact the agent that was managing the situation, for you i have sympathy as it was a hard one to call, but you must understand that we were in real danger , anyway its over. i will be returning to samos votsalakia and smaragdas as i still thing its paradise, and i will be using the same travel company. this note was not ment to disrespect any persons, Thank you for your responce George

Comment on Fires on Samos by Karin

Karin — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 16:41:56 +0000

It’s True; it was bad, it was frighting, air was thick from smoke & ashes, true it was chaotic. But most of the tourists were evacuated and most the greek people stayed, one could ask them for advice and they were good i…n spreading confidence. and if the worst would have happened I’m sure all remaining people would have been taken out via the beach if necessary.
I think the agency people were left “in dark” also for a long time and I guess there is no real emergency plan for every village for such an occasion, so they had to wait for instructions and information. btw. the mobile network collapsed from time to time – not improving communication. And given the many people in the area, it went swift…suddenly Votsalakia was a ghost town.