Visitors, Nimborio and a Turkish Fire
We had a wonderful lunch in Nimborio on Wednesday. Not at the taverna, that has closed for the season. In fact, thanks to parking, we had to drive right through it to get to where we needed to be; a good job there were no tables outside. Walking down to Yialos, I felt the cold of winter on the breeze, but reaching the bottom of the Kali Strata was surprised to see a large group of day-trippers in shorts who had poured of the Sea Dreams. It was so wintery up in the village, I’d forgotten that there were still tourists visiting the island, and loads of them too.
A quick shop for a new keyboard to replace the one I’ve mashed out, some other shopping from Georgina’s (essentials such as decent tea bags and tomato soup – and much cheaper than at other places), a quick beer while we waited for our lift and then off around the headland to lunch.
On the way back, after being caught up in the traffic waiting to board the Blue Star and nearly ending up in Kos, we saw a long cloud of what I took to be fire-smoke hanging across Turkey and wending its way towards the west, where the sun was setting. Getting out of the car in Horio, my suspicions that this was a fire over there were confirmed by the smell in the air. I asked Yianni and a few others if they knew anything about it. They took a cursory glance across the water and weren’t too bothered if that country was on fire. Not surprising really. No sign of the cloud the following morning, and no sign of any news items online. Perhaps it was a local bushfire or something.
There will be more pictures from Wednesday in the future; I took quite a few and will add them into my collection of pics to post one day when I have nothing else to talk about.
