I’m doing these ‘Symi, Greece as it happens’ blog posts to keep you up to date with the situation in Greece as I see it here on Symi. I won’t be doing them every day, it depends on what’s happening. If we stay in the Euro or if we leave, I’ll keep you informed as much as I can, from my point of view at least.
So, what is happening? Well, as you can see, there are a lot of boats trying to get into the harbour…
That was Wednesday afternoon and that’s always a busy time with the day boats leaving, the taxi boats coming back, the Blue Star Diagoras coming and going and the daily visitor sailing boats coming into port for an evening on the town and dry land. And meanwhile, down in Pedi where we went for a walk on Wednesday, there were also loads of boats in.
People were having fun on their jet skis…
And the tavernas were getting ready for a busy evening as per usual. (This was late afternoon.)
In the evening we treated ourselves to a meal at The Windmill where, apparently, they are now serving Mythos wine.
No, not really, that’s James putting his beer bottle label on the jug. A very nice evening though and great food as always. If you’re not sure where the Windmill is, it’s up in the village opposite the Village Hotel. Up the Kali Start, turn left after the Olive Tree and along there on your left. Just before going there, Neil took a shot of Yianni and his wife Katerina. Here’s my shot of Neil posing the couple impromptu like. Hopefully we’ll see the finished shot before long.
Thursday morning brought a little cloud cover which hung around and got in the way of the sun from time to time. It helped take the edge of the heat (32 in the shade in the courtyard) and it made for a great sunrise. It felt pretty humid out there at 5.30, and there were low clouds in the valley between the Turkish mountains, and a low cloud hanging over Nimos too.
The path up to ‘To Vrisi’ was busy with wayward goats all thinking I had come to feed them, or milk them maybe, but clearly I hadn’t. I’d come to tiptoe in and out of the droppings.
That reminds me of one of the gags in ‘Jason and the Sargonauts’ where someone says: ‘Is that an olive on the ground or a goat dropping?’ and another character replies, ‘I don’t know. Eat it and find out.’ To which the first replies, ‘I couldn’t possibly! I can’t stand olives.’ Which is a great segue into a plug for my comedy novel based on the tale of Jason and the Argonuats, set on Symi in three time periods (late 1880s, early 20th and WWII and ‘present day’) and involving Jason the ‘Sargo’ rep and his quest to unlock an old mystery and find the whereabouts, on Symi, of ‘the Golden Fleece.’
‘Jason’ has a four point five star rating on Amazon and some good reviews: “Finished this book yesterday and oh so amusing, would love to see it as the film. Another unputdownable book, that had me engrossed from beginning to end, and chuckling.”
“This is Dan Brown meets Whitehall Farce with a bit of education about Symi’s history thrown in for good measure. Set on the Greek island of Symi, it’s a fast paced whodunnit with lots of laughs and loads of page turning moments. Yes, it was hard to put down.
This books deserves a large audience and stands up there with the best novels about contemporary Greece.”
I’ll leave that with you and, more importantly, the link to where you can find a print or Kindle copy and a broad hint that if you’ve not read it yet…
