Symi in the News

Symi in the News
It seems that Symi was in the British news yesterday; a passing reference in a robbery case. Both The Mirror and the BBC carried the story.

The story is about a group of men (one of whom is called Collins, no relation) who pulled of a £10 million + robbery in Hatton Garden, London. You won’t get much detail from the coverage at the Mirror website but the BBC gives us the line that’s of interest to us. ‘Mr Lincoln [one of the defendants] admitted leaving the country two days after the raid, saying he travelled to the Greek island of Symi where he “went fishing”.’

Images from Symi Greece by Neil Gosling and James Collins
Symi -hiding place for jewels heist?

I’m not exactly sure of the timeline, but presumably the summer. A UK observer wrote: ‘One of those accused flew to Symi two days after the heist on a supposed fishing trip – the court heard today. One theory is that he was carrying the missing £10 million worth of jewellery and may have hidden it on Symi or got someone to hide it and keep it safe.’

Images from Symi Greece by Neil Gosling and James Collins
Someone down there making a daring escape?

So I’d like to ask the real jewellery heist hoarder to step forward and share the spoils with your Symi mates. No one around here will say anything. Lips are sealed and you know there’s no such thing as a wagging tongue on a Greek island. Just share around the wealth and it will be like ‘Whisky Galore’, or ‘Waking Ned,’ we’ll all carry the burden of guilt and lesson the load. And it is just before Christmas. Go on. I’m not going to look my fellow islanders at the same way again, wondering who might be the friend of the Hatton Garden Mob who is currently safeguarding part of the hoard. (They stole over £100 million worth, I heard.)

Images from Symi Greece by Neil Gosling and James Collins
Now this is worth £10m, no need to steal for it.

Anyway, while we are all looking at each other suspiciously from now on, I have been getting on with a small winter project which I will tell you more about in due course. For now though, it’s Saturday and so here are a few more images from Symi taken in the past few months (as I’ve not been out and about to get any new ones.) Have a good weekend and I will see you in Christmas week soon.

Images from Symi Greece by Neil Gosling and James Collins
Anyway, wandering off into some Symi photos…
Images from Symi Greece by Neil Gosling and James Collins
Island view
Images from Symi Greece by Neil Gosling and James Collins
At Panormitis
Images from Symi Greece by Neil Gosling and James Collins
Still at Panormitis
Images from Symi Greece by Neil Gosling and James Collins
After a baptism, dinner at the taverna
Images from Symi Greece by Neil Gosling and James Collins
Waiting for renovation on the Kali Strata
Images from Symi Greece by Neil Gosling and James Collins
Walking to Nimborio