A quiet, still Saturday morning. A gullet is heading out on a calm sea, the sun has just come up, a perfectly round ball of fire that took its time rising out of the haze in the east, and I’m just back from a walk/run up the hill to the bridge across the old riverbed. The cat is asleep on the coffee table, where he shouldn’t be, after a busy night spent trying to keep me awake. He’s like a bored teenager most of the time.
The alternative Symi Festival (my title) is well under way. I could hear the Spanish guitar concert from St Evangalismos from the balcony last night. I sat out for a short while before going to bed at 9.30, ready for an early start today. Not that today is going to be terribly busy. I have some work I want to do this morning, and then I need to go to Yialos to get some things for tonight’s supper, prepare the courtyard, make some big beans, and then we’re entertaining this evening. Looks like it’s going to be a relaxing, but rather warm, day. I already have the fan on me and it is only 6.42.
And so, a quiet weekend is planned and a quiet week next week. It’s getting far too warm to be doing anything too strenuous after seven in the morning, so I am trying not to. One thing I do have to do next week is take a phone interview with one of the private health insurance doctors, to have a bit of a medical chat so they can assess me for my insurance. I think I have decided which company to go with, in fact, I am pretty sure I’ve decided. I need to tell the other one and I suspect I’ll then get phone calls telling me of the evils of my chosen path and trying to persuade me over to them. Such phone calls would be the reason I didn’t go with that company in the first place.
And that’s about it from me this Saturday, apart from a few more photos, or in the case of the weather at the moment, a ‘phew!’ more photos. Have a good weekend.
