This Saturday, December 16th, 2023 at 08:00 , Giorgos Asderis, former diplomat, researcher and member of the Association of Friends of the historic ship “Kyknos”, is the guest on the Saturday special edition of the show “FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS” by Antonis Karagiannakis, on VOICE OF GREECE.
This year marks seventy years since the first voyage of the “Kyknos” in the Greek seas and about fifty years since its retirement.
“I have nice childhood memories in the port of Volos, in 1956-1957 when the jewel-ship “Kyknos” came and whistled, so nice and loud and everybody ran to admire it. It was a solution and a means of communication with the outside world during those difficult years that connected Edipsos, Limni, Chalkida, Volos and other places” said Mr Asderis.
He studied and worked in Italy, experienced strongly his own cultural shock and then became a diplomat with service in many countries of Africa and South America, extolling the Greek business acumen of the Greeks who left Greece and succeeded abroad.
In addition, Mr. Asderis mentions that “in May 1947, the Kolokotronis brothers with their company “Saronikos SA”, bought the ship and launched it for a brilliant and glorious course. Omiros Kolokotronis launched the “Kyknos” ship to travel for Chalkida, Edipsos, Volos, Limni and Oraious. He decided these itineraries because he wanted to arrive earlier to Volos since he was married to a woman from Volos and the roads were very bad. Thus, “Kyknos” helped a lot the area of the Pagasetic Gulf”
Curated and presented by Antonis Karagiannakis
Broadcast: Saturday, 16 December 2023, 08.00 am (Athens time)
Rerun: Saturday, 16 December 2023, 20:00 pm (Athens time)
