Adriana’s Blog is Back
Great news on the ‘keeping in touch with Symi’ front. Adriana has started up her own blog and the first post, which explains what’s to come, can be found here: Adriana’s Symi. That’s going on my list of regular reading.
Yesterday saw a little rainfall but this being Symi, the sun was soon out again and then gone again as thunder rolled around distantly, and then more rain, followed by more sun, and the temperature all the time was in the mid-twenties. Grey sea, grey skies, but still warm and suitably Symi, and the plants were very grateful for the additional water-funds.
There were two dance shows, a name day and a football celebration over the weekend. My presence at the bar was missed for the final on Saturday night where ‘our’ team, AEK, won… Something. (You know sport is not my thing.) I later discovered, “AEK won the third European trophy of its history and its first Basketball Champions League, triumphing 100-94 over Monaco in the final staged on Sunday in its home court, the Olympic Sports Hall in Athens.” Whatever the celebration was the other night, it involved about 20 minutes of fireworks, a procession of motorbikes touring the harbour with lights and horns flashing and blaring, and there was loud music drifting up and a final cheer which suggested someone important had won something equally as important. It was fun to listen to from up here.
I know that was a bit vague re: what they won, but I wasn’t there. Just as well really as the ‘boys at the bar’ have been hounding me to buy an AEK football shirt for the upcoming season, and I haven’t. No point buying it now, Yiannis told me, because they will probably change the shirt before next season, but I may have a look and buy one when I get some spare pennies. I haven’t told the ‘boys’ (the AEK Rainbow Supporters Club who range in age from 12 to 70 + and meet regularly for matches on a winter night) that I’m there more for the atmosphere than the football, but at least I am trying.
Very trying you may say as I am not 100% sure what was won at the weekend (I am sure someone will let me know), but what can you do? For my part, I can get on with some work, but before that, I’m going to have another look at Adriana’s Symi and bookmark it.
