Getting around Serifos

Four bus routes, and every one of them begins at Livadi. One climbs to Chora (KHO-ra). The other three run to beaches.

The Chora bus is the generous one — in the summer timetable it kept going past midnight. Every other route stops far earlier, with last returns in the late afternoon or early evening. So the bus that decides your day is never the one out. Check the return before you commit to a beach, or accept that you are walking back.

Pay the driver as you board, and pay in cash. The fare on record is a cash fare, and the door of a bus is a poor place to find out whether anything else works. They are small — two euros and change, four at the far end of the island. Keep coins on you for this even if you carry nothing else.

Now the part that matters more than any of the above. Every timetable we could find expires on the thirtieth of August, seventeen days before you arrive. September on a small island is not August — services thin out, and they thin unevenly from route to route. Treat all of this as the shape of the system rather than its schedule. The real times are at the port, from a driver, or on a sheet of paper taped to a wall, and that sheet is more current than anything online.