The Silva Estate, where I am currently living, is about an hour walk away from Corfu Town. Corfu Town is the main area for restaurants, shopping, and sightseeing. Besides walking, there is also a bus which runs a couple of times a day, and the occasional taxi that drives by. When none of those options are possible, and it is necessary for the volunteers to get into, or home from town, we have learned to use our remaining option: Hitchhiking.
When I asked the others if this was legal, the response I got was “…I don’t think it’s…illegal.”
On Wednesday evening all of the volunteers decided to go into town together. It was too late for the buses and no taxi’s were around so we decided to see if we could get a ride. Sure enough, a few minutes later a large van pulled over. It was quite dark so it took us a few moments before we realized what the side and the front of the vehicle parked in front of us said:


“POLICE.”
The Police officer jumped out of the van and asked us where we were heading. We told him that we were trying to get to Corfu Town, he opened up the passenger door and motioned for us to get in!


Between the Greek that we knew, and the English he knew, we all had a great conversation with our awesome police officer on the way into town. When we arrived we thanked him for the ride, said goodbye, and went to find a place to eat. We chose a place we had never been to before. When we walked in we saw several police officers sitting at a table, about 5 minutes later our policeman came walking in! We got introduced to the other police officers and ate dinner together. At the end of the night two of the police officers asked if they could have a picture with us.


My current thoughts on the subject of hitchhiking: it must be legal in Corfu, and the police officers must not have too much to do…