Festival dates ahead
After a weekend that saw concerts in both Yialos and Horio, and the festival of Megalis Sotiris in the mountains, there are more evets planned for this week.
There’s a concert with Yiannis Mathes on Monday 8th.. A concert with our local youth band, Ano-Kato, on Tuesday. On Wednesday there is a dance performance by the ballet school organised by the Women’s Association of Symi. An opening of a new art show with work by Nikos Psarros is on (at the Cultural Centre) in Yialos from Thursday 11th August until the 20th – the opening is at 18:00 to 23:00 on Thursday, free, everyone welcome and there will be music at 8pm too. Friday there’s a performance by the dance group of Eirini Mylonakis, and on Saturday the Symi Theatre group are performing, ‘Ο γιος μου εχασολόνσε.’
If a venue isn’t mentioned here it’s because the venues are usually announced on the day of the perforce, or just before, via the loud speaker system on the island. Mind you, when you walk through the village square at four in the afternoon and see rows of chairs and a speaker system shipped in from Wembley Arena, it looked like, then you can be fairly sure a concert is going to be taking place there before long.
As for our weekend, that was spent: popping down to Yialos on Friday to get some money out of the bank, spending €60.00 of it on a load of cat food and litter for HRH Jack, and then €20.00 or so on a dinner at ‘The Trawler.’ This is a taverna at the bottom of the Kali Strata noted (by us) for its garlic potatoes and stuffed mushrooms, among other lovelies. We took the bus back up, chatting to a Canadian/American couple who were on a sailing trip and then went to the village square. It was good to see Georgio & Maria taverna full to overflowing with tables out on the street. I hope Taverna Zoi was just as busy, and the other eateries in the village. On Saturday I did some work at home tidying up an old book that is coming up to its 20th year in publication – I thought it was about time I corrected some of these ‘early learning’ errors in its writing and had a second edition. The concert was on Saturday night and then on Sunday I worked on the last assignment of my screenplay writing course while Neil got on with his I-GCSE.
So, it was all go and it looks like it’s going to be all Symi Festival fun and frolics through this week too, with the weather still hot – a nice breeze on Sunday – and the skies are clear. Here’s to the week ahead.
