Coming back from Nimborio
As I was saying yesterday, we tend to take the coast road back from Nimborio to Yialos, so we have a chance to look at the sea and the coves on the way around. There’s not very much shade, although there are now seats (concrete) to rest on and some are under the few trees. It is possible, at certain times of the day, to catch the train back as it runs nearly to Nimborio, but now it has only one carriage, you might find it full, so I wouldn’t rely on it.
As I understand it, Nimborio was one Emborios, the ‘trading place’, roughly translated. The word εμπόριο means trade or commerce, and εμπόρος is a merchant. The area was important in Roman times as the centre of island trade, and there are the remains of a Roman mosaic still to be seen at the back of the bay beside the church.
Meanwhile, on Symi, the festival is still in full swing. There was a very popular concert on Monday night with a famous singer, great excitement, a helicopter arrival and a heap of boats in the bay and crowding the harbour. (I, as usual, was in bed before it started and up only a few hours after it finished.) We have many French and Italian visitors here right now, plus many Greek visitors from the mainland, and soon the northern Europeans will return for their favourite month of September. We have visitors of our own arriving in the next couple of weeks, so we are looking forward to that, and then, before we know it, things will be quieting down for the winter again… already.
Here are two more photos from our walk.
