7 ways to travel to the Greek islands…. from home

So, until you’re able to book cheap ferry tickets to your favourite destination with Let’s Ferry, we’ve put together some survival tips and ideas to boost up your mood.

Home alone

Think big and plan ahead
Call your best friend, take out the old map from your bottom drawer, find your next destination at the Let’s Ferry’s Destination List and plan for an adventure. Even if you don’t like pinning everything down to the last detail, allow yourself to get excited for the next trip for the best is yet to come!
Because every Greek island is so different, planning ahead can enhance your travel experience. For example, you will need to plan for a longer trip if you want to visit Crete to allow yourself enough time to discover its many beautiful beaches and rich history and traditions. But, if you’re more into island hopping, Paros and Antiparos, or Rhodes and Symi are some of the many great combinations. Remember, you can book your ferry tickets to Crete or multiple destinations at Let’s Ferry. So, get on it and find your next destination!

Video call with friends

Get the inside scoop
Before the era of tablets and mobile apps, we got our information from travel guides and books. Not anymore! Nowadays, there are plenty of resources where one can get really useful information on places to go, like travel blogs, where people post their experiences and opinions, and journals and photos with lots of insider tips. Instagram and YouTube also offer amazing drone videos and photographic material. This plethora of information and media allows us to virtually travel anywhere in the world and… e-visit picturesque stone-paved alleys, medieval castles, sandy beaches and fish restaurants by the sea. Cable and Smart TV, offer amazing travel shows that are so well-produced that by the time the show is over you feel like you’ve been at this place already. Another idea is to share coffee table travel books with your friends. They are full of artistic pictures and useful information and they will give you a pretty good idea on what to see and where to go when visiting a new place. This way you’ll know all about the exotic beaches of Kefalonia and Ithaki long before booking your ferry tickets there.

Social Media travel

Put your chef hat on
It’s time to take out of the pantry and your refrigerator all the goodies you brought back from the Greek islands: the Arseniko cheese from Naxos, the Skotyri from Ios and Marathotyro from Andros, the herbs, pastry, liqueur and everything else that you packed into your suitcase before taking the ferry back home. Put your chef hat on and cook with or without a recipe local dishes that bring you back a taste of Greece! A traditional Greek cheese plateau, salads with oregano, sweets for your coffee or tea… anything can inspire you! And if you didn’t bring back all the ingredients you need for your local cuisine extravaganza, worry not.

Cheese platter and local products

You probably will be able to find them in small delicatessen stores or food markets in any big city around the world or online. A glass of ouzo from Samos or Cretan raki is guaranteed to reignite your love for traveling. And don’t forget, Loukoumi from Syros is the best dessert; it literally smells and tastes like a rose!

Loukoumi from Syros

Keep the memories you make
Scrolling down your phone you will find plenty of pictures from your holidays. How about organizing them? Get rid of the not so very good ones and make an album with your favourite shots to keep those memories alive for years to come! You won’t even need to print your pics if you opt for a photo book or a digital album with titles and captions. There are many companies who offer such services and they can get your photo book delivered in your front door! And about this less-than-perfect selfie you took at the famous Navagio Beach… Just book your ferry tickets to Zakynthos online with Let’s Ferry and try taking it again next time! Always a great “excuse” to return where we love and long!

Summer memories

Get into the Christmas spirit... a la couleur locale
Even if you can’t physically travel during this Holiday Season, you can still get into the spirit and sing along! Greek Christmas carols can vary a lot from one place to another and it can be so fun to watch and hear the locals singing their variation of Christmas carols that you may even want to hum along. The Christmas carols of Ikaria and Crete have their own lyrics; Chios has a local custom called «Penemata»; while in Naxos they have the «Kotsakia», a traditional dance for Christmas and the New Year. Find videos with Christmas carols from around Greece online or buy a CD collection and enjoy the carols at home with your friends and family! So, for now, you don’t have to book your ferry tickets to Mykonos and Dilos in order to listen to «Dradramasoura» and other traditional festive songs. But next year…

Red boat in Mykonos

Travel to Greece via Hollywood
Greece is a country that many directors have chosen to film their movies in. Spend an evening watching one of the movies that made Greece a bucket-list destination and promoted its beautiful scenery to the world. Watch, the “Deep Blue” movie, filmed in Amorgos, that is an ode to the island’s beauty. Or enjoy the “Boy on a Dolphin”, filmed in Hydra, the movie that made Sophia Lauren into a symbol of beauty. Or “Alexis Zorbas”, the movie that formally introduced the Syrtaki dance to the world when Anthony Quinn danced at the beach of Stavros in Hania. Or go for the beautiful scenery of Kefalonia and its beaches and watch “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin”. Or just have fun and sing along the “Mamma Mia” movie, filmed mostly in the beach of Kastani it also showcases the beauty of Skopelos and Skiathos. Organize movie nights with your friends and family and enjoy the Greek sceneries – while imagining you are part of the cast! And if you feel you want to live the adventure, like Angelina Jolie did in the “Lara Croft” movie, just click here for cheap ferry tickets to Santorini!

Movies filmed in Greek islands

Fake it till you make it!
Now, if none of the above works, start an Instagram fake traveling challenge: put together all sorts of travel pics, photoshop yourself into the pictures you love and travel as far as you can imagine! After all, don’t they say “you first picture it, you then do it”?
And if you are more into meditation, close your eyes and travel far away through the sound of the waves or the dolphins that follow the imaginary ferry into your chosen destination. Picture yourself on that secluded beach that you discovered last year in Donoussa and draw a mental picture of your next trip there with the comfort and ease of a reservation with Let’s Ferry. There are many mobile apps for meditation and nature sounds so, Inhale – Exhale… this too will pass…

Antiparos

There are no borders and no restrictions to the imagination!
Use your mind and our tips to travel as far or as close as you want with Let’s Ferry - even when you cannot!