Wind and Smoke
Symi was buffeted by high winds on Friday night/Saturday morning. On Friday, the wind brought smoke from a large forest fire near Corinth. I opened the window for a better photograph and could smell the smoke which also passed over Rhodes.
On Saturday, when the wind had died a little, and the smoke had cleared, I took a short walk in the sun, and the rest of the day was a strange mix of being too warm one minute and chilly the next. At least, that’s how it felt inside the house. I finished the latest draft of the latest novel and sent that off to the proofreader, so I met my deadline. In fact, I was early, and that’s left me free to wander the hills, thinking up what to write next.
I have other projects I could be doing. I have a book on understanding hieroglyphs to study, models to make, and who knows how much spring cleaning to do. I can see that becoming autumn cleaning, as I don’t really want to tidy the mousandra, or repaint the living room, or do anything else unnecessarily tiresome these days. But, such things must be done at some point.
As for news… More places have opened, and we have more tourists about. I passed a group of four French-speaking visitors on Saturday morning, none in masks (adds angry face), but then, we seem to be back to that ‘we’re okay ‘cos we’re safe’ kind of attitude, and fewer people are taking precautions. On Saturday night, the Trata Taverna opened, as did the Vapori Bar, both in Yialos, and we wish them well, as we do every business on the island. A week today, we shall be in Rhodes as I have an appointment with immigration to have my fingerprint taken, and then I have an appointment at the opticians, which is long overdue. Things to look forward to after seven months of lockdown: paying out for new glasses and (possibly) getting four teeth straightened at capped, though not at the optician. I will go to one of our two excellent dentists when funds allow.
So, here we go into another week, and it’s one where we might start seeing the gradual return of tourism and more settled weather, and hopefully, no more smoke clouds from forest fires.
