Brexit, Symi, boats and books (again)
The boats are starting to thin out now as many were from Turkey, over here to celebrate the end of Ramadan. In my brief political news, there is a rising tide of opposition to the farce that was and is ‘Brexit’ and a new Facebook page has been set up for everyone living in Greece who wants to keep up to date with information, particularly considering our status as soon-to-be foreigners in Greece, or not, depending on what happens. The page is here BRIG Brits Remain In Greece, you will ned to have a Facebook account to access it of course. (I am sure views and contributions from other nationalities is also fine there.)
From what I can see it’s not a place for people to come and start fights over who is right or wrong in this on-going, coward-caused and fool-followed debacle. It is “a place where we can discuss the worries over our future in Greece. But also a place where can get together to make sure we have a voice that is listened to when negotiations begin over our future living in Greece.” There’s far too much overheated debate going on at the moment, so a more positive discussion group, like this one, is the place to check out if you have concerns and want to discuss what’s new in the potential disaster that is ‘Brexit.’ And that’s it for my political parish notices for today. On to something else.
Another book. I think it will be called something like ‘Symi, and other places’ as it’s going to be a collection of Symi tales and experience, anecdotes and observations, mixed in with other travel tales in the style of Bill Bryson (hero). I don’t mean I will be copying his style, though some people have likened me to him (blush) but in that it will be an anthology of travel moments, along the lines of ‘Notes From A Small Island’ and others. Actually it would be more akin to ‘Neither Here Nor There’ which is about his travels in Europe as most of my travel tales will be from other destinations in Europe, and maybe other places. And I am calling it ‘Symi⌠(something to be decided)’ as, to be honest, books with Symi in the title sell better than my other books, so hopefully that will attract custom. There will be enough Symi observations to justify it, hopefully.
That’s planned to get underway when I have finished the first draft of ‘The Saddling’ which is now up to 90,000 words and heading towards its crisis, climax and conclusion. Once that’s out of my system I will put it aside for a while, concentrate on getting ‘Remotely’ out there and then start on the new compilation.
That’s my writing news. Other recent activity has centred around spending quality time with visiting friends, mainly at the Rainbow and, on Tuesday night, at Georgio’s Taverna. I am sure many of my readers have already been there and know all about it, but if you haven’t and if you are planning a trip to Symi, it’s a must-visit place to eat. It’s all local and traditional dishes, with the barbeque on too so fresh local meat grilled just for you, there are loads of mezethe dishes (starters) and then main courses such as their famous beef in Metaxa and pork in honey. We often find it’s cheaper (and certainly a lot easier) to eat out there than it is to cook at home, the prices are good too.
So, boats, Brexit stuff, new book ideas and food, all you need in a blog post in one morning. Have a nice day y’all! As they say somewhere in the world, apparently.
