Back to Symi Dream
Here I am, back from Tilos and back to Symi Dream. I’ve been posting some photos on the Facebook page while I’ve been away, so you may have seen some of these before if you follow us there. There’s lots to catch up on, and it’ll be here over the next few days, probably in random order as I remember things.
The trip started on the Friday with a pleasant trip across on the Blue Star Patmos in the afternoon, arriving by seven in the evening. My apartment at Elli Bay was only a couple of minutes’ walk along the seafront, and Katarina was waiting to show me my room. This was to be the centre of operations for the next six days, and it didn’t take me long to unpack and head out for dinner. I went to Nicos’ taverna because I like it there. The traditional Greek meals are prepared in their own way, lots of things are cooked in the wood oven, and they have other dishes that are different from the norm. When you live on a Greek island, you can get accustomed to the usual chop-and-chips-and-rice, used to the same menus and places, so it’s good to go somewhere different. Hence, in Rhodes, we head for the Indian or Thai restaurants, sometimes Chinese, because we ‘do’ Greek all year round.
It was election night on the islands, and when the news came in that the incumbent mayor and party had been re-elected, the horns went off, there were a few bangers and, later, many celebrations in the streets and square. The incumbent mayor of Symi was also being re-elected that night, so no doubt there were celebrations there too, at least from the winners and their supporters. That’s about as political as I’m allowed to get here, but needless to say, I read a lot of articles and reports from the disaster that is the current state of the yUK while I was away. That was when I wasn’t writing 7,000 words a day, researching and reading. In fact, my trip was mainly: eat, write, sleep, rinse and repeat.
More tales to come along with any info I learn now I am back on Symi where we have my nephew staying with us for a week. Hopefully, there will be more Symi photos mixed in as the coming days go past, but if the blog ends up being short, it’s because I am entertaining and normal Symi Dream service will resume after next weekend.
