Back to Orei

On Sunday (August 9th), we left Panormos bay and sailed nicely with the wind back to Orei (we’ve been here about a month ago).
The port was almost full. There was one good berth left, but it was blocked by lines of the two neighboring power boats. We decided to go in anyway. We made it till the blocking lines and waited there to see if we can find the owners of those boats. After a long wait, we decided to behave as the locals would and move one of the lines so that we can go all the way in. We’ve done so, with the help of someone on the quay. As we got in, the owner of the other boat came back, he pushed the button on his remote control to open up the gangway, and went on board his boat. While doing so, he mentioned that another boat is planned to come at 5pm into our berth and that it’s pre arranged.
As this is not our first day in Greece, we knew that there is no such thing to reserve berths in Greek ports, so we just ignored him. You could tell by the look on his face that he has no case.
To be on the safe side, I took the boat papers and went to the port police. The policeman there, was very nice to me, and naturally, knew nothing about this reserved berth. He told me I can stay and even said I don’t need to pay if it’s just for one night.
End of story.