Carry on up the road
We took another early walk on Wednesday. This time we headed down the Kali Strata to the misnamed ‘lazy steps’ and turned right at the bottom. The main part of the walk was then back up the road to the village. It took us 35 minutes from door to door. It’s a pleasant enough walk, though there’s not much shade if you plan to do it during the day. There are benches to sit on if you want to take in the view and you do get a great view of the harbour from there. Thank you for the comments about the ‘Symphony of sound’ post the other day. Wednesday’s walk wasn’t quite in the same league sound wise as we weren’t rural.
It was visually pleasant though with the sea appearing grey and calm because the sun had not come up over the hill. A boat was gliding out, others were moored and quiet and a few people were starting to gather for the ferry which slipped in almost unnoticed (by me) later in the morning. A few cars passed us on the road, soldiers heading off to work, other people coming down to the harbour for work or the boat, and there were a few cicadas around to give us a scratchy underscore. By the time we were back in the village square, at around 6.45, someone was having breakfast at Lefteris’ kafenion. Lefteris is usually there before I go out walking and some mornings that’s at five thirty; he’s an early riser too.
And on with my day… I managed, with help (thank you Allan) to get ‘Honestly’ ready for Kindle, and the cover design should be with me any time now. This means that tomorrow or Saturday I can send up the new Remotely cover and also publish Honestly. This is a 25,000-word novella. A quick, long-short story involving Miss P and her magic and, like Remotely, is comic with a bit of a serious message buried somewhere underneath. A bit of naughtiness (think Tom Sharpe) and a bit of fun. With the new Remotely cover coming out soon it means that the print copies with the old cover will be “collectors’ items” (says he) so you may want to have one on your shelves if you haven’t already.
Other work plans continue with the exciting interruption of a screenplay to write. Unless another Miss P novella pops into my head, the next book publication should be ‘Symi, Stuff & Nonsense’ around November time.
Over here on Symi, the festival has taken off with a live band in the harbour on Tuesday complete with fireworks. There are brochures around so if you are heading this way in July, August or September, you can pick one up and see what’s going on. A lot of church events, music from rock bands to classical, talks about books and other cultural evenings will be taking place across the island. Symi may be a small rock to some, but it’s a rock that rocks.
