Symi Sea
Kalo Mina! The response to my interview at http://effrosyniwrites.com/ has been really positive, which is great. Thank you to everyone who has shared the link and talked about it on Facebook, and elsewhere. If you’ve not read it, just click that link above and then share it on. Meanwhile, today I thought I would give you some images of Symi sea, or at least the sea as it was on Sunday morning. A warm morning after some colder days, a calm day too and there was some mist across the shores of Turkey opposite.
And while you are looking at those, here’s a catch-up on my other non-news. It’s been a quiet week so far, with the usual work and chores taking place of course. We were invited to drinks at The Olive Tree on Monday night (thank you Hillary!). This is a good venue for private parties as you can arrange the catering with Jenine and Tina and then entertain your guests on the terrace overlooking the Symi sea. It was a lovely evening and we met many new faces as well as caught up with some regulars.
Earlier on Monday we’d done the bank, post office, ticket office, cat food run and ended up with a light beer at Pacho’s, watching the sea (you see a link here?) before having a quick moussaka at Meraklis as we were too short on time to run up the hill and make lunch. Any excuse. The meal was, as always, perfect and the moussaka was just out of the oven. I then spent the afternoon pottering around the house and didn’t need to eat anything, apart from the homemade humus at the terrace party later in the day.
The rebuilding of the customs’ house is going well, the outside looks repaired and work is taking place on the inside. The old fish market has been fenced off for the time being, to protect it as well as to give the workers a place to be in the shade. The new ‘Schengen hut’ as I call it seems to be doing its job. This is the ‘chicken shed’ as Sotiris calls it, by the clock tower. Not the most slightly of things but there because of the Schengen rules (or something I didn’t quiet understand). Basically the port police and customs officials (?) use it to check incoming boats from, Turkey – I guess. This saves the officers from having to run and drive around the harbour to collect papers and also, I again guess, saves yachters from having to park up on one side and walk around to the officials on the other. The boats pull up one at a time, get stamped or whatever and then drive off. (You can see I am not a boat person.) My only worry is what happens when we have 100 boats a day coming in as we can do in the summer? There could be a long queue out at sea. Ah ha! The sea link again. There, Symi seas, a post with links to the sea. See-ya!
