Walk to Nimborio
I finally dragged myself out of the house on Sunday, and we went for a walk. It was a bright, sunny day, though the cloud built up later and it was cold in the shade. Mind you, after trekking down the Kataraktis, at the back of Horio, through the back of the harbour, up to slope to St George and Nimborio, down to Nimborio itself, back along the road and into Yialos, I was soon rather warm.
We had arranged to see some friends off, the first of the year’s regular visitors come early for a birthday surprise. A couple of bears at Roloi café is the perfect way to wait for a boat. Unless you don’t like beer, in which case it’s probably not, though they have all sorts of other things there for you, including very friendly service. It’s interesting to be there early, about two hours before the boat in this case, and watch the café start to fill up as people wander down from where they have been and start to wait. It was quite a busy boat as I believe, there was a sports match on, and a visiting team was heading back to Rhodes.
There was also a fundraiser for the organisation that is raising funds to send one of our football teams to a European competition later in the year. That was held at the new sports centre in the evening, by which time I was home and moving around very slowly making noises along the lines of ‘Ow,’ and ‘Ooh,’ every time I lifted a leg. I’d not been over to Nimborio for some time, and it was good to see the improvements in the road, with new paving down in several places. There are new handrails by some of the longer drops off the road to the rocks as well; handy and more secure. The old boat wreck is still against the shore at ‘Red Rock’, and the walk and views are just as stunning as they always are.
Monday morning was spent tackling the German layout keyboard and seeing how I got on with the kneeling chair. Sadly, neither of them have worked out very well. The chair hurts my shins after an hour or so and is not quite the right height, and the keyboard drove me mad with its symbols all in the wrong places. So, I ditched that, went back to good old faithful and clunky keyboard and I am now back on the piano stool. I might try adjusting to the chair bit by bit as the week goes on.
One final thought: you might remember I mentioned the ‘The 13th‘ (the film made on Symi in 2013) has been put forward to the London Greek Film Festival for later this year. You can check the trailer out here and give it a view and a like. The more it gets, the more interest there will be. You can also share that link around on your Facebook and Twitter accounts and other such things if you want to help. There will be more news on the festival in the months to come including a Kickstart backers update when there is more specific news.
