Today is Greek Independence Day, and a celebration of the start of the war of independence, 1821. It’s a bank holiday, and there will be services and celebrations because it is also the Feast of the Annunciation. Last night, Yialos and the road to Evangelismos were lined with flaming torches as part of those celebrations, and you can see great footage of this if you look at Symi TV, either on Facebook (link here) or on YouTube (link here).
This morning we woke up to cloudy skies and some light rain, but yesterday was a glorious day. I took myself off for a walk around the top of the Pedi Valley to admire the greenery and flowers, blossom and new leaves and had a lovely, quiet walk.
This was partly to recover from the fun and madness of Saturday night when our godsons came for dinner. Just us four, a curry Neil had cooked (I made the bread), and some homemade ice cream, lovely chats about all kinds of things, and a very naughty game of Cards Against Humanity. That raised even more laughs and some eyebrows. Since then, our oldest GB has secured himself his first long-term rental down in Harani, which will be close to his work at Pavone Café, which is just behind the police station. He is due to start his season at the beginning of May, while the other GB will start back at the Kali Strata Restaurant after his school exams, in June.
Before then, he’s got a Yamaha motorbike kit to finish building, a grade two music theory exam next week, and will start on his grade three theory, while continuing with his grade four piano. In our additional music lesson (we have two a week now) we’ve also been learning to play the clarinet (so much easier when you can already read music), and next month, we’re going to start looking at poetry, lyrics, and songwriting.
The last piece of news is that my next book is finally out on Kindle. It will be in paperback as soon as I get the full cover in the next couple of days. Click the cover to reach the Amazon.com page for more details.
