Some more photos from Neil today, taken on Symi over the past few days during which time we’ve had hot weather, concerts in the festival(s), and 168 drops of rain, roughly speaking.
Over the weekend we were out and about, down in Yialos twice, seeing health insurance lady and getting that finalised, visiting the post office to collect a couple of things (slug pellets for the slugs that come up out of nowhere and explore the kitchen – odd), some DVDs, a book, and to see various folk about various things at various times – it was a day of variations. Saturday was the festival at the Ilithini, the Panagia and name day of Mary and others so an important holiday and several shops were closed.
Sunday was a semi-working morning followed by a meeting about the health insurance, all now done and dusted and up and running though I have to be careful running for the next two years as my knees don’t kick in until after then. Some things are not covered for the initial periods of time, like back problems (one year) and knee problems (two). After that I should be fully done. Not that I’ve had much time for running this past week. It’s been crazy season for invites and there are more on the way.
Last night we visited neighbours, tomorrow I am visiting Rhodes, Thursday a certain godchild has a birthday and another has a name day, and so on… Let’s aim for a quiet weekend where I can stay home and work on the next book. Meanwhile, the sun is shining hot and there are the taxi boats are busy. Sunday was manic in the harbour; our person coming from Rhodes arrived at the Sea Dreams at 9.30 for the 10.00 departure and had trouble finding a seat. Let’s hope everyone who comes over spends a little of their hard-earned in a Symi shop.
So, no other earth-shattering news? Don’t think so, if anything occurs I will let you know. Oh, we were told by a taxi driver that the nice blue/grey and white boat that had been anchored in the bay for over a week beloved to the ‘boss’ of Olympiakos, the Greek football team thing. Clearly here to spy on our house or search out talent from the afternoon under 11s football game in the village square.
