Symi spring weather
Here’s wishing you a happy month ahead, kalo mina, as they say in Greece. We are starting off the week with some photos from Neil. I have run out of shots in my spares folder but we are going out for a walk later today (Sunday), so I aim to get plenty to use in the up-coming blogs. Expect lots of shots of rocks and terraces, views and blue sky as it’s time for some Symi spring weather.
It’s a good looking calm day today and the temperature has risen again. According to some weather reports on Friday (Euronews), Rhodes was the warmest place in Europe at 18 degrees. Try telling that to the bedroom at seven in the morning, with condensation dripping off the windows and the top blanket wet with it, your glasses steam up as soon as you put them on and then there’s the condensation dripping from the bathroom ceiling onto the ‘library.’ Three books are currently on the go in the bathroom: A history of England, a biography of Howard Hughes and a copy of the Beano, all in danger of being soaked by dew, basically. So, bathroom ceiling wiped down and bleached (to stop black mould), the windows left open all day and the books removed to dry in the kitchen, when it’s not also condensated. Meanwhile, the balcony doors are open letting through a wonderful slice of cold air every now and then, giving the cat something to tut about as he takes up his morning sleep duty on the sofa, and hopefully drying out the inside of the house.
Outside the house things look pretty much as they did at the end of the summer. The plants (ours and those we are allegedly looking after for others) are doing fine in most cases and looking like stalks where they should be in others. Some lose their leaves in the winter and that’s happened, others are doing well, some we’re not sure about and even the basil is still going strong at its home in the laundry room. The vine has actually started to grow back in places, mainly in the part that overhangs the road where we didn’t cut it back, and it won’t be long before the fig tree that half blocks the view is in leaf again. I’m not saying that it’s spring here already but it feels like it could get that way soon. I’m not a planty person as you know, but others who are, are sharing images of new growth and daffodils on the island, and other interesting spring-like things.
So, maybe we shall find some spring hints on our walk this morning/afternoon. I think the plan is to head out on the donkey path from the village towards Ag Paraskevi, and then follow ‘the wall’ around to Ag Rafael and over the hill to Roukouniotis, and then wall back in time for a late lunch. Watch out for photos and, by the way, welcome to a new week.
