I am doing a new website about Santorini and wanted to use the official road signs for each village as a picture link to each page.So a very good friend of mine took the pictures and brought them to me.
I am a resident of Santorini for more than 20 years now…I think we all locals don’t look at the signs almost at all because we know where we are going…So we are sign blind if you get what I mean.
So here are a few that I must show you…I hear that they will replace them with new ones this year but I still have to share this.
Here we go Sign Number one:
This is a sign that should have been on the correct side of the road and should give information to the visitors that “this is Akrotiri”? follow this road to Akrotiri? Oh and yes maybe it is time to put a new one up that a tourist couls read…and not guess.Just my thought.
Here is Number 2
This is the official Sign of Pirgos village.It is in the correct place but this also has to be replaced, it looks really bad for Santorini………..
Here is Number 3
Tell me what you think about this one…The sign indicates “MUNICIPAL DEPARTMENT OF VOTHONAS MUNICIPALITY OF THERA” I believe that if a visitor reads this maybe he will believe that THIS is the Municipal Department of Vothonas……..?!But it really is just the bus station, a bit confusing if you ask me.
Here is Number 4
Well I can only tell you that this sign is about Exo Gonia village….No more comments here.
Number 5
This sign must be around 20 years old…Looks like this one has to be changed as well.
I have many more pictures of terrible signs to upload but I think you get my point.Santorini is among the most visited islands of Greece.The municipality of Thera or Thira must make the signs clear and easy to understand…No wonder so many tourists are stopping in the middle of the road imagining if they are on the right way to wherever…they want to go.But get me wrong here I love Santorini like no other place in the world but things like that make my angry.
I wish that these signs will be replaced in 2011 and make us look like we are really interested to point people to right direction.
