Yesterday
Just back from a three-mile stroll up the side of the Pedi valley and back, so expect some of my usual images. I took a video from the road above the valley and put it on Facebook if you follow the Symi Dream page. I wanted to capture the sound of the dawn chorus, which yesterday included the usual: cockerels, chickens, sparrows, other birds, a dog or two, cats fighting… It is pretty loud at that time of day, I can tell you. I didn’t see many people because I was out early, but I was greeted enthusiastically by Araby, the sheepdog, and said hello to his shepherd, waved at a few random people in cars who waved at me (as silhouettes because of the rising sun, I couldn’t see who, but I waved anyway), and then saw a sign of the times in Zoi’s car park…
I say a sign of the times, it was a family arriving in their car which was loaded with suitcases and bags. The ferry had been in, and they must have just come from it and before that, I assume, from Athens or another island. Maybe coming for the rest of the summer? Maybe the first time they’d been able to get home? Maybe none of my business, but it was both reassuring and slightly unnerving to see because I didn’t recognise them, so I assumed, ‘off-island’ visitors. The bars will be packed! At least, these people’s wardrobes will, judging by the number of suitcases they’d crammed into one tiny car. And so my week gets underway…
