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A weekend on Symi, what to do?

Friday, May 24th, 2013 No Comments
Categorized Under: Day to day, Symi Photos

So, you have a weekend on Symi, what are you going to do? As far as I have heard, the exhibition at the Symi Gallery is opening tonight, but the poetry reading has been moved to the following weekend, due to the exams taking place at school. That’s the news out of the way. Weather [...]

It’s raining pomegranate petals

Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 1 Comment
Categorized Under: Chorio, Day to day

A bit of a mild morning this morning, cooler than yesterday, with a slight wind and some cloud; no rain forecast on my weather station but that’s not always accurate. And the morning juice is also milder than of late with less ginger in with the apple, beetroot, pear, lemon and orange. One of each [...]

Symi calendars, spiders and missing history

Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 No Comments
Categorized Under: Day to day

Trying to get ahead of myself again today (Monday). I am working on the wedding video and putting the final touches to it, adding some music and some extra Symi Videos of ours that the wedding party requested. And then turning it into a DVD. The making of the DVD takes time and I can’t [...]

Symi roundup

Monday, May 20th, 2013 No Comments
Categorized Under: Day to day

Just a couple of news items this Monday morning to keep you up to date with what I’ve found out. Thanks to the wonder of modern science I can now sit on the steps outside the shop of an evening and connect to the internet while watching a view that, apart from the odd telegraph [...]

Busy harbour, quiet weekend

Saturday, May 18th, 2013 2 Comments
Categorized Under: Day to day

It was busy in the harbour yesterday with day-trippers from Rhodes coming over. That was good to see, many of the tavernas were doing good business, as were some of the bars. We were down there around lunchtime to visit the accountant, check the post office for Neil’s new sandals, which had arrived, and to [...]

A day of collecting things and getting wet

Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 No Comments
Categorized Under: Day to day

The first wine night of the season went well last night with around 50 people turning up to meet, browse, mingle and chat. It came at the end of a busy day: after catching up on some work in the morning we headed off down to Yialos to take care of some business: seeing the [...]

A Symi weekend

Monday, May 13th, 2013 No Comments
Categorized Under: Day to day

There are all kinds of things to mention today after a very nice weekend. On Saturday we had a visit from Carol Dunning who runs The Greece Property Buying Guide. We’ve met Carol before, last year when she came over from Rhodes for the day to conduct and interview with us and see a little [...]

Symi mayor welcomes filming on the island

Saturday, May 11th, 2013 No Comments
Categorized Under: Day to day, Symi video

An update on the film news: The Mayor of Symi has responded to 1066 Productions saying: “We welcome your proposal to film on Symi and we are glad you have chosen Symi to make your scenes. If the filming takes place at the village or at any other place on the island, there is no [...]

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