It is all so exciting at the ferry terminal as we prepare to board - gigantic trucks, cars, motorcycles, travelers disembarking and boarding, young and old, enormous steel planks and ropes, pallets of freight, fruit vendors with overflowing baskets, the Greek cleric with his black robe and hat, the young woman alone checking her cell phone - commerce, pleasure travel, excited voices and escalators - taking all of us on as we cast off for the island of Syros for the best moussaka and sunset ever.
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