From a booth facing the ferries moored at Piraeus, Tassos Papadopoulos cuts tickets for passengers heading to the isles of the Saronic Gulf.
It’s 5pm on a hot summer’s day and through the sun-streaked haze he takes in the cars and trucks lining up to cross the steel ramp into the hold of the Aegina-bound vessel. Last year the queues were much longer. “People aren’t travelling it seems,” he says with a shrug. “The weekend traffic is heavier but ticket sales are down by, I’d say, 50%.”
