Pleasant
It was a pleasant morning for a walk yesterday, the temperature being 28 degrees at 7.30 as opposed to the 34 + it has been of late. I wandered up the side of the mountain while Neil took off to Nimborio and back.
There was something of a surprise the other day as many people with Greek mobile phones received an alert from the government. The message comes with an unmissable sound, and we don’t hear it very often, so at first, it was a shock. All it was telling us to do was stay safe on the way home from holidays, which was a bit late in my case as I did that months ago, but I reckon it meant the Panagia weekend. I also wondered if it was to prove that Greece is taking the pandemic more seriously than, say, the yUK where things got out of control, and where, rather superciliously, they are now threatening to put Greece on their list. That’s the list of countries you have to quarantine after you’ve come back from. (There has to be a better way to write that, but I can’t think of it right now.) Who knows? Anyway, apart from a rise in cases caused by too many people gathering where they shouldn’t be, an influx of people from abroad and others generally flouting the rules, Greece is still managing things well.
We’ve had day boats and ferries, taxi boats are going out, round the island trips are taking place, I’m sure I saw the Diagoras the other day. The busses are also running their trips to Panormitis, so apart from very few visitors, things are running normally. Masks and distance are the rules. Masks when inside any shop or business (well, any building, really apart from your own home), and distance at all times. It’s not so bad now as people can sit outside cafes in the summer, right up until December sometimes, but when the dark and cold months come, wearing a mask inside while taking your coffee is going to be interesting. Let’s see how many local businesses and people stick to that one, as there are several who are currently not following the rules.
