Here’s wishing a happy Panormitis Day and festival to everyone who attends or follows the celebration. In the past, we have been to the festival in various ways. In the back of a transit van, on foot (it was a four-hour walk), in the back of a flatbed truck (a few times, sometimes sitting on the floor, other times sitting in a tied-down chair), we’ve stayed at Marathunda and visited from there, and we’ve been by car and back by bus. Some people arrive by boat from Rhodes, or from other places on Symi, some people walk, and with the weather being so calm now, that’s a good option. We’ve also, on this day, been up to Roukounotis, and/or other churches dedicated to Michaelis, and have been made welcome at every one.
Today though, I have to work in the morning, and in the afternoon, we’re visiting the family for some madness and mayhem, no doubt.
Yesterday, while Neil was off doing his ‘program three’ at the gym, I went for a stroll around the village wondering whether I should reinstate my ‘thing I find by the road’ collection of images. The things are usually odd shoes or a single glove that mysteriously appear overnight, but yesterday, all I saw was a long-squashed rat, or the shell of one, and nothing very interesting. The cloud was coming over the Vigla, but before it arrived (and it didn’t amount to anything), it was a gloriously warm and sunny morning at 24° and felt like spring.
As you can see, there’s work going on in the lower car park, which has probably ruffled the fur of the local cats who hang out there, but being cats, they’ll adapt and find the bins wherever they are put while the work is going on. I assume the work here is resurfacing, but I’m not sure. However, I am sure I have to go before I am late for work.
Happy Panormitis Day to everyone.
