I’m being brief today as we’re back in Rhodes for three days, and I’m coming to you from a hotel room. We’ve got bits and pieces to do and one of them can only be done today, and as there’s no boat to suit on a Thursday, we came over yesterday morning. This enabled us to take our time, and to spend a couple of days at the Castellum, a hotel we’ve stayed at before. Last night, we chatted to some nomads who wanted to settle in Turkey, but now can’t, so are spending their time alternating between EU and non-Eu countries until the wife gets her/European Irish passport, when they can settle in Greece. They are staying at this hotel because all your meals and drinks are included. When they started here a few weeks ago, it was €35 a night for them both (for us, it’s now only €55.00). When you think that includes three meals a day (and the food is fabulous), snacks, drinks, tea, coffee, water, cleaning, bills, TV and great rooms, it’s a pretty cheap way to live.
On the walk here, we took a road not so often travelled (by us), and it struck me that, as with Symi, when you get off your usual beaten path, you see so much more of interest. I’ll try and get some more photos today, but we came across magnificent buildings like this one…
We also discovered to my delight that we are staying between two music shops, and each one is only a three-minute walk away. One was closed last evening, but the other was open, so that was me contentedly browsing for half an hour. The thing about music, for me is, I don’t know what I want to learn or have a go at until I see the score, so browsing the physical pages is the way to go – you can’t do that online. I picked up some Debussy, had a look, and put it down. (It was for thirteen fingers, but only two hands.) I wasn’t going down that route, something grade six or seven is comfortable, so I opted for a new-to-me Mozart Fantasia in C minor, and a more grade eight-ish transcription of Vivaldi’s Four Season, which I thought might be fun on the old Joanna (Piana/Piano, for those who don’t get the slang). I also indulged in a set of duets for me and Harry, though these will be for his sight reading, as they are about grade two, and he’s working on his four.
So, that’s me all caught up in a brief post, and now I’m off for my all-inclusive breakfast.
