Easter weekend on Symi
The dynamite and bangers have started as Easter weekend arrives on Symi. It’s Great Friday today, as I write (yesterday) and the church bells have been tolling for the services, some bangs have happened but the majority of large ones will be reserved for Friday and Saturday night. A couple of day boats have been in, the Blue Star has come and gone, a little late and should be back tonight, and we’re planning a meal out with various friends this evening, giving George at To Spitiko a table of 12 to deal with, plus their other customers. So, lots to look forward to there.
Today’s photos were taken from the house as I’ve not been out and about much; living here isn’t like being on holiday, especially when you work from home. We’re very protective of our working at home ours and routine. It usually runs from around 6.45 in the morning until one in the afternoon, rarely goes on into the afternoon, though I do get some writing done then, I am more of a morning person. But the photos; you can see the boat in and not many other yachts around, that’s because it is still early season, not yet quite May but already it feels like the season has been running for a while. More and more visitors are arriving and some have already come had their holiday and gone, which is a bit unnerving. But again, plenty more to look forward to as the summer starts proper in a week or so.
The fig tree in the photo is in front of our house. We cut it back slightly earlier in the year and already its taking over again. We’re trying to groom it so it grows to the right and gives our neighbours their shade and privacy, but so that it doesn’t go too far to the left and block our view. We’re keeping an eye on it. Last year, when we moved in, it was a set of stumps and, by June, it was nearly blocking our view of Katrianettes. These things grow wild and though they provide folk with fruit, they can take over and dig their roots into sternas and cellars. This one is too far away from our sterna to worry about that. Luckily.
Another photo today shows the side of the next door house. Why? Well, because there are a couple of lizards living on the roof there, or at least, they come up to sunbathe on the roof regularly. I’m not sure what type they are (the mating type for sure as that’s what they were doing yesterday, quite unashamedly) but they walk up and down, stopping now and then to check on is if we are on the balcony, and then sitting with their heads up like they are looking down their noses at us. They are quiet neighbours though and haven’t yet had any wild and noisy parties.
I’m off now to open the windows and close the shutters so no glass breaks in the explosions to come (some have already been pretty loud) and then I’m off for the weekend. Here’s wishing you a happy Greek Easter and a pleasant weekend.
