That was the Sunday that was. What a great day, and a slightly unexpected one which didn’t work out according to plan.
It all started off nicely with a quiet morning at home, lounging about, feeding the cat, playing Sim City BulidIt* on my tablet, watching the view, feeding the cat, doing some mild housework, feeding the cat, arranging the courtyard furniture, sitting in the sun, feeding the cat and then, at about ten o’clock (the benefits of being an early riser: you get a lot of cat feeding done in a morning) we went out to the town to get some money out of the bank.
Stopping, of course en route to say hellooo to the happy madhouse which is The Olive Tree. http://www.olivetreesymi.eu/ Everything was fine and dandy there, all newly painted up and colourful. And then, after a quick chat, down the steps to the harbour and around to the bank. We’re still getting the occasional ‘bravo for the dancing’ from locals which is all highly flattering and lowly embarrassing, and there is always plenty of Kalimera, Yasou, Ya! Ya! And Alroit? going on when walking around in Yialos.
Bank raid was successful and then it was off to the nautical museum (forgot to get a photo, damn!) where Neil put down a deposit on a gramophone. If/when you come to Symi you must go and visit the museum. I mentioned it before, but now it’s open with an antique shop beneath and the museum above; a great idea.
After that it was time to wander around to, unsurprisingly, buy some cat food (and lemons), pack it all in the rucksack and then wander some more. We had thought about going to the plant shops but it was Sunday and they were closed. And then we thought about having breakfast as the cat had been well fed but we hadn’t. So we looked at a few menus and kept thinking, ‘we’ve got all that at home,’ and so walked back up the lazy steps, which are not the lazy steps at all. Thank you for the reminder, Adriana. http://adrianas-symi.blogspot.gr/
The slope by the old Symi Visitor office on the south side of the harbour is often referred to as The Lazy Steps. But these were in fact further along the harbour – I’m not exactly sure where. But I was told, ages ago, that people not wanting to work in the heat of the day wold hang out there, in the shade. Hence the name Lazy Steps; you’d just sit around doing nothing. Clearly these people didn’t have a cat to feed. So, next time you come up the slope, call it something else as there is nothing remotely lazy about it.
All that exertion called for a pit stop which turned into breakfast at The Olive Tree (see above), where we had a coffee with Sam who was off to work while his brother went off to the beach. Ah, such is life for a working elven year-old saving for a PC. Lunch went off swimmingly, and we then came home. Here I ordered a few essentials from Ikea; sofa bed (where’s that going to go?), extra shelves for the book case, coffee table for the bathroom (complicated story) and a new chopping board. My evil plan is that they arrive while in am away and someone else carries the sofa bed to the house. An afternoon spent writing another chapter and then to the bar to meet friends for drinks, which turned into more drinks with more friends and then a dinner, with returning friends and the next thing you know it’s Monday morning and the cat wants feeding – at 4.30.
And, BTW, I am off to Tilos on 29th May, not just yet, another 11 days to go, during which time I want to get another 25,000 words of the book written.
*And BTW x 2, if anyone else plays Sim City BulidIt and wants to ‘ad me’ as a neighbour and knows how to do it (Android) please get in touch. I need friends. I know, it’s so sad.
