Starting off a rather blurred Tuesday morning after a very pleasant Sunday and Monday. Today might be the first day for wearing shorts as someone’s put the heating up all of a sudden.
Sunday went off brilliantly and we had a great audience, as you will see from one of the photos on today’s post. The children were excellent and the adults got a big round of applause and a cheer after each of our routines too. It was a packed house – and a hot one – with parents, visitors, locals all enjoying the show. After five months of lessons and rehearsals it now feels like winter is over and done with and we can get on with summer.
We got a congratulatory handshake from the Mayor during the interval and I am sure he suggested we do the routine again, on the main stage in the summer, with him in it too. I’m up for that if he is. I haven’t yet seen any phots of us in the show, but will have a scout around online today – if anyone has any they’d like me to share, please send them over – not just us I mean, of the other dances too.
And summer, for us this year, means the delights of being able to take some time to enjoy things a bit more, I mean with less hours to put in at the shop. So, needing to check the bank and see the accountant, we popped down to Yialos yesterday for half an hour at around 11.30. We made it back to the village just in time for Neil to start his shift at the bar at 3.00 having called in at the accountant (tax forms not due until the middle of May), the bank, the post office, the pharmacy and To Spitiko for a bite to eat – salad and mushroom risotto in my case.
A quick aside: hi Joshua and Daniella – great to meet you! And Ian & Marylyn, the restaurants in Rhodes were, Boukia Boukia (in the Old Town around the back of Socrates Square, actually quite near the public loo but don’t let that put you off!), and Koukos cafe in the new town pedestrian way, and Nikos Fish Taverna nearby. Hope you find somewhere.
Talking of shops, which I wasn’t, there’s a new online Symi shop for you to check out. You can bring some of that Symi sunshine straight to your door, direct from the island. This is a new venture, currently selling men’s clothing, but with other accessories and art coming soon. Check the site: www.symishop.gr and bookmark it so you can check it out again. It looks like you can order and pay online with cards and with PayPal and there’s free worldwide shipping.
Here’s the link again so you can go and have a look now. www.symishop.gr
