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Here we are back on Symi after a successful shopping expedition to Rhodes. The weather was wonderful until this morning (Monday) and right now it looks like it’s about to rain on us here on Symi.
I took a few photos while ‘over the water’ and I’ll put some up over the next few days. We came back with a suitcase full of ‘Jumbo’ and a few new clothes. Highlights of the weekend included visiting various charity markets where people were selling homemade biscuits and cakes, decorations and ornaments in order to raise funds for local charities. There was one such event organised in our hotel (the Lydia) on Saturday that included singers and musicians. It was good to hear some old Greek Christmas songs played on a variety of instruments. Elsewhere the seasonal music was the same-old same-old, apart from Jumbo where in the space of 90 minutes they played their own Christmas ‘song’ about five times.
Lyrics included: ‘I will walk from darkness and love you for one thousand years,’ or some such cringe-along-a-lyric that sounded equally as ‘stalkish.’ Sorry to dampen things but it’s simply not possible for one person to love another for that length of time (without dying) and they should not state it in a song for the sake of a rhyme, as in this case (although it didn’t rhyme very well.) But there you are.
Our other highlights included a walk around the Old Town moat on Sunday morning in temperatures over 20 degrees (people were sunbathing and swimming – not in the moat as there is no water, but over on the beach where we walked later), a stop or two at the Symi bar in the old market, having parts of the Old Town to ourselves to walk around heckle- and haggle-free, and having a whole Sunday with nothing to do.
More updates during the week as usual. Off to finish unpacking now. I am finding all kinds of things and asking myself, ‘Who put that in the Jumbo basket?’
