Symi Sun
Finally! The wind died down over Sunday night, so I thought I’d share some sunnier views today. Mind you, these were taken a couple of months ago, but we will have such skies again very soon. The sun is coming up earlier each day, so you can expect some sunrise shots once I get this mammoth first draft out of my head and have time to get out and about more.
Talking of sunrises, regular visitors to Symi will know that on the wall in the Rainbow Bar, there is a painting of a ‘Symi Sunrise’ and the slogan, ‘Symi Sunrise is good for you.’ (It’s a cocktail.) Yiannis had this painted years ago, and it and the mural of the Symi scene still remain. I mention this because Yiannis has already checked in to make sure Neil is happy to come back to work as soon as the bar can open after Easter. Of course, he is, and we can only hope there will be customers. I know many friends from abroad are eager to get back to Symi, and who can blame them? I’m keen to get off it for a day just for a change of view and for something to do.
That’s going to happen in two weeks, as I have to go to Rhodes to start the process of applying for my residency card. The last time I did this, in 2008, it took about three weeks of toing and froing to the police station here on Symi, phone calls, and a lot of waiting around. Hopefully, as the authorities are now having to process over 30,000 of these applications, they will have streamlined the thing. The first trip is to deliver the paperwork and fill out the forms, the second a while later is to be fingerprinted, and the third is to collect the card. That is unless, by now, they have speeded things up and arranged for Symi people to get fingerprints done on the same day and for the cards to be sent to our local police station for collection. That would save a lot of travelling between the island and save money and time. The last I heard, though, three trips were still necessary. I’ll let you know in due course.
And back to the blue skies to finish.
