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Jan 26th 08

May 14

Hi James,

Sorry to hear about your earworms (sounds nasty!)
As a cleanser try replacing whatever tune you are stuck with with the theme to the Pink Panther (you know the one - Henry Mancini)
After a couple of repeats the Pink Panther theme should fade away., along with the original 'infestation'
Give it a try

Warm Regards

Alan

PS Not my idea - I read this elsewhere, but it does seem to work

August
12th

Hi !

Having just returned from a great week in Chorio on Symi, I wondered if anyone has photos of the elusive Symi spider ! We managed to spot one in the late evening last week but the 2 pics we took were out of focus and no-one believes that they really are as large as they are !

Regards,

Ian Johnstone
* If you have - e-mail them to SymiDream and we'll pass them on
Here's one we received: click here
And here's another of the horrid things: click here

Hi

Sorry to bother you, you've got a gorgeous picture (HERE) but whereabouts in Symi was it taken as I don't recognise it?*

We visited Symi last year and thoroughly enjoyed it. It's such a beautiful Island. We also bought a photo from your gallery. It was a one off, a photo inside a church and you distorted it so it was just an array of colours. It looks great in our house.

We will hopefully visit Symi next year as we have fallen in love with the island and don't want to stay away from it for too long.

Kind regards

Jane
* - It's the 'new' beach at Pedi, opposite Julie's bar, taken from George's taxi boat - Ed

March 26th

Hello Symi Dream people,

I am 13 Years old and I am from Symi both my parents grew up there, but I live in America... and so i usually go in the summer to see my grandparents and aunts and uncles.  Your website is truly great because I can see Symi and all my friends without even being there. It's so AWESOME!! Keep up the good work.

Eleftheria

America but from Symi

Dec 16th

Time to surf the web, and accidently I found Symidream-site!

Makes me dream ;-)

Remembering our marriage in June at the Diamarchio, having our friends and families there, the boat trip to Agia Marina and the planting of the olive-tree, that Mercurios says he is taking care of since ;-)

The greek lessons and conversations with Leda, the fantastic dinner at Aktaion´s terrace prepared and served by Stavros himself... we visited our friends Roula and Takis and partied with Manos and too much "Raki" some
weeks after.

Now, with all that sentimental feelings, we forgive Symi the noise of too many cars, the (dangerous!) racing motorbikes with sound´s that can make you deaf (and might kill someone one day...), the Port Police complaining at 12 in the night about a little Discomusic coming from Aktaion´s terrace (our marriage party), while some weeks later the Bars (empty nearly...) had loud music on till 3 in the night... forgiven....

We will come back, of course, and moore again in the harbour - and hopefully the mayor and people of Symi will find until then a solution for that problem of noise-pollution and parking-mess and the bikes´ racing.(fortunately I am not the only "complaining" person about that, which might help)

>From here, cold Munich/Germany, we send all our best wishes to Symi and wish you a nice and calm winter.
See you in springtime, sure!

Have a good time!

Regards
Corry&Hans
SY Flexen Hex´n

Thanks for your speedy reply.
The Opera House sounds familiar, but then again we have done a fair amount of on the spot research when looking for rooms on previous visits so I cannot be sure.
I was looking through some photos of previous visits hoping to glimpse some feature that would help pin point the rooms. I only managed to find a couple showing the steps leading up to the rooms. Typical white painted risers nautrally but what might help is the 3 steps turning right from the main flight onto a red half iron entrance gate near the bottom and then at the top leading to the first storey entrance area.

Also at the top of the flight of steps is a fairly high stone wall behind which are a number of large cactus plants are growing. The building itself is white with mustard coloured balconies (2 facing onto the street below with a small seating area nearest the steps) surrounded by black ironwork and an old grapevine.
The only other thing I can remember were a number of lemon trees on the other side of the narrow street,about 10 yards down the hill. They are behind a low wall and a chain link fence. I remember because one escaped into my gin and tonic one evening!
Still, I think an easier solution is finding the owner. Each time I have met him we are always taken to the same rooms so I am assuming this may be the only property he has for visitors. Having thought more about the location of his store I can only recall it was fairly long and narrow with the cash desk immediately on your left as you walk in.
What I do know is that when standing at the end of the bridge (Gold shop side) if you were to walk between the large outdoor restaurant on your right and the buildings which are set forward around the harbour his store is situated on the left hand corner. Or 40ish degrees East at a distance of no more than 10-15 yards. Barring GPS co-ordinates that’s me done, and once again apologies for the length of this post, lessons will are being learnt for any subsequent visit!
James, thanks again for helping me with this.
Duncan

There is one particular group of rooms we particularly liked. After leaving the ferry and walking past Pat & Ali’s bar (p.s if anyone has Pats email I would be grateful, again something else I managed to misplace) carry straight on past the bridge past the square and the Disco on the left. There are if I remember correctly 1 or two boats (or bits off boats just off to your left. Heading that way there is then a couple of steps leading to a narrow street heading uphill which is just to the right of the restaurant with the raised narrow seating area at the front (I think the last time we went 2 years ago that restaurant was then closed) Only a matter of 10-15 yards up the hill there are a number of 2 or 3 storey buildings, the first is locally inhabited the second are the rooms I am trying to book, phew………
The owner has a store by the bridge (telephone kiosk side) outside the store or just to the left of it are a number of barrow stalls selling dried herbs and the like. I cannot for the life of me remember the owner, nor his son but if it helps are would say they were about 65 and 30 respectively, hoping to do nobody a disservice here ;-)
If all this sounds familiar and you have the name and telephone number, or as mentioned Pat and Ali’s email I would be extremely grateful.

P.S don’t usually book ahead, or plan anything really but with 6 this year getting us all in the one spot might be tricky.
If we cannot find accommodation there any other recommendations for air-con rooms around the harbor would be welcomed.
Thanks again, and apologies for the length of this post
duncan.size@blueyonder.co.uk