Ferries from Serifos

One ship, the Dionysios Solomos, calls at Serifos twice in the same day. It arrives from Piraeus at 11:00 and leaves for Sifnos at 11:10 — ten minutes alongside. Then it comes back at 15:20 and departs for Piraeus at 15:30.

That gives the island four listed movements a day, seven days a week between June and the end of September: in at 11:00 and 15:20, out at 11:10 and 15:30. The morning run down from Piraeus takes 240 minutes and the afternoon return 255; Sifnos is 45 minutes in either direction.

Serifos was an iron-mining island well into the twentieth century, and the loading pier at Megalo Livadi still stands out on the west coast. The 1916 miners' strike here, put down with deaths, is a fixed point in Greek labour history. The hilltop Chora above the harbour is the reason most passengers come now, and the ten-minute turnaround is a reminder that the boat is passing through rather than terminating.