Three random shots from my photo file today, apropos nothing in particular, as that’s what I have to say today; nothing in particular. Mind you, I often start like that and then wander on and see what comes out, and a whole page later… well, there we are.
These aren’t the best photos ever, but they show you three different locations. Horio and the ‘main street’, which is just wide enough for a very small truck or a carefully driven car, a square at the back of Yialos, and a view at the top of the main road by the windmills. If you look around blogs, social media, print magazines and websites, you will see stunning photos of Symi, the harbour and the neoclassical houses, but it also has beauty in the day-to-day. Like the ‘main street’ of Horio with the walls where bored and over-excited children have applied their marker pens, and where the flag gets changed only now and then. Where there are no glitzy high-fashion outlets for oligarchs on super-yachts, but a simple bakery, a butcher’s shop, some homely tavernas and other small businesses that keep the village alive.
All locations are worth a wander.
The village after you reach the top of the Kali Strata – keep going straight up, along the main road unit the very end, then do a right, first left, on until you can go no further, right, first left and up, and you will come to the museum, for example.
The main road from the harbour to the village and beyond. Get off at the windmills, walk back a little way on the pavement and you will see a splendid view of Yialos.
In Yialos itself, behind the town square, where this other hidden (and private) square can be found. If you’ve not found these views already, look out for them on your next visit.
There’s more to see than what we see.
