Symi Weekend
We are certainly enjoying some great weather here; sorry, if you’re in the UK and it’s snowing where you are. It was 24 degrees in the shadiest part of the courtyard at the weekend as we were tidying up the plants and sweeping up, starting to do a bit of spring cleaning. Neil popped over the road to pay the rent and came back with a bottle of wine from our landlord. That went down well in the evening.
It felt like being on holiday on Saturday. After getting some work done and some odd jobs seen to around the house, we went down to Yialos to do a bit of shopping and ended up having lunch at Meralkis, for the first time this year. As usual we were very well looked after and had a great meal at a good price, and were just about to leave when a jug of wine appeared on the table from the house. It was clearly going to be a day of wine-gifts. Afterwards we went to Mediteraneo to sit and look at the sea, and watch the world go past. The music they were playing sounded like sublime soundtracks from films (it was ‘Emotions’ from the Compact Disc Club), in fact, it sounded like it was the soundtrack underscoring the film we were in right at that moment, not that we were, it just felt like we were. Flat sea, beautiful blue sky, boats on the water, life wandering lazily by…
Back up to the village and a quick pit-stop at the bar, a few people came and joined us, there was an attempt to press-gang us into staying for one more, but there comes a point when you know you that if you do have that ‘just one more’ you’ll be over the edge and the next thing you know you’ll be waking up on the floor, at home, with a traffic cone on your head and your toenails painted red. (Note: that’s never actually happened to me. Yet.)
Sunday dawned just as gloriously as Saturday had and, having a coffee on the balcony at 7.30, I could already tell it was going to be a hot day. It was good to see day-trippers in Yialos over the weekend, the train is running again, some bars and cafes are still finishing off their summer preparations and others are already open and attracting customers. It looks like the season has started up and hopefully it’s going to be a good one.
I’m off to Rhodes this afternoon on the Panagia Skiedani. Two nights in a hotel, another health check-up and some light shopping, and then back on Wednesday afternoon on the Blue Star. Meanwhile, Neil’s at home doing his college course and getting the house ready for our nephew who arrives on Wednesday, and I will get some blog posts ready in advance. They will probably be advertising my own work, which I know a lot of readers have already, but I’ll see if I can find some other Greece/book related ideas for you, perhaps to buy as summer holiday reading, or while you are sitting in the UK looking out at the snow.
