Quick Thursday post
Quiet days on Symi in the winter. Very quiet, actually. In fact, taking a walk yesterday afternoon we hardly saw anyone, even when we came back into the village square mid-afternoon. Rainbow is closed for a while but Lefteris’ is open, and the weather was warm, usually there would be someone outside the kafeneion, or inside, but no. It all feels very quiet indeed around here at the moment…
But that’s kind of standard for this time of year. Many people are away, or have gone away to work, while others are staying in, resting after the season and saving what little money they may have made and saved for the winter. There are some festivals happening through these winter months, like Epiphany yesterday, plus other church events and people will get to together there and meet up. Later in the winter there will be the carnival too, but with Easter being late this year in Greece (Great Sunday is May 1st this year but 27th March in the UK) carnival and Lent will also be late.
But still, we had a good short walk around the road behind our house. This road gives you views down to the back of Yialos and the hills on the other side. You can also see the back of the village when you round the corner by the second bin collection point, where other stray cats are being looked after. And then the road bleeds off into the village lanes, with an option to head down the Kateractis to Yialos if you want to.
It’s still a bit cloudy and grey around here at times, and more rain is promised for today, but at least it has warmed things up a bit. The Blue Star came and went on Wednesday, back to its usual timetable after the Christmas and New Year period, and the catamaran has also been doing its trips from and later back to Rhodes, though the island is still without a boat on certain days of the week and you can only really spend any time in Rhodes, if on a day trip, on a Friday, which often results in arriving back later than you hoped. But I don’t hear anyone complaining, at least not yet and I’m certainly not complaining. But then I am not intending to leave the island for a couple of months unless I absolutely have to. And on the subject of have to: back to work.
