Monday morning
Here we are on the other side of Easter with a few photos from the weekend. The weather has been warm. It was 30 degrees the other evening, so we were able to sit with the windows open for the first time in many months. That helps when the dynamite goes off, and the house shakes, as the shockwaves enter via the balcony, shimmy you along the sofa a little and disappear through the open front door. There was plenty of dynamite and, apparently, lots of fireworks on Saturday night. We tried to stay up for it, but being early to bed, early to rise folk, we slept through it. Hard to believe there was any noise at all when you look at the morning view from the same, still open windows.
Neil was busy baking a cake for two days. I was at work on my manuscript (and will be for a while), taking a couple of short walks up steep hills and doing very little else, and woke up late on Tuesday to another quiet morning.
I also had one of those advice emails from some Greek government website that might interest you. From 15 May, the government will allow any tourist to visit the country if they have been vaccinated or can provide a negative coronavirus test. However, restrictions are still in place for the Orthodox Easter on 2 May – travelling to another prefecture is not allowed, and a curfew is in place. From 3 May restaurants will be allowed to seat people outside. Schools will reopen on 10 May.
I’ve not been out yet, and it’s 7.30 on Monday as I write, so I am not sure if Lefteris kafeneion will be open from today, but its chairs and tables were out and being prepared at the weekend, so I assume it will be open later today. Yiannis is still away, so the Rainbow won’t be opening just yet, but Neil’s ready to go back to work as soon as he is needed. We have four ferries operating now at various times, so travel to Rhodes is much easier, although I’m not 100% sure what restrictions are in place for that. I shouldn’t need to go over for another couple of weeks, by when I should know more, but restrictions are being eased, and vaccinations are continuing.
That’s my catchup news this quiet Monday morning, and the rest of my day will be spent working on the manuscript, popping up the hill to collect the remainder of a cake, and probably slobbing on the sofa again ahead of starting the new-season routine on Tuesday.
