Here’s this morning’s Symi sunrise for you. We were up and out by 6.20, walked fast up to the Kantina and then down again, Neil ran back along part of the road and I stepped it down through the village.
When I say we were up by 6.30, I mean I was up at 3.30, 4.15, 4,57, 5.30 and 6.10 all thanks to the cat sitting on my head, and a mosquito, but I finally gave in around 6.15 and got on with it. Mind you, I had been in bed since 9.30 the previous evening. We’d been for another long walk after lunch, as an alternative to falling asleep in front of ‘Game of Thrones.’
There will be photos tomorrow, today’s photos are from Profitas Ilias which is an easy walk from Horio. Yesterday though we went out on the west donkey path out of the village, along to Ag. Paraskevi (Patron Saint of eyes) and then, just after the lonesome house on the left, took the path to the right. Here we followed the ‘Wall’ as marked on the map, and there are plenty of old stone walls to admire, and a croquet lawn, until we came to the church of Ag. Raphael. And, would you know it, it just happened to be the name day and the festival was still going on.
We were invited in to take photos of the church and then to have a beer, after this we were given a souvlaki and a box of sweets to take away. Each. So much for a healthy walk.
And then on and down into Yialos, then back up the steps to the village. But that’s for tomorrow. Today, it’s half seven, I am at the desk, the sun is up, the cat is outside contemplating the open gate and wondering if he should explore the lane.
Neil is seeing Yiannis this afternoon about the bar, I am intending to get some bits and pieces done, the Blue Star is due in and I can see a gullet heading out of the harbour and across towards Nimos. Is this the first Turkish gullet of the season I wonder?
