Well, that was an interesting three days. I’ll drop in the details during the week, but the weekend included boats, lots of walking, cracking joints, a cracking lunch, good fun, a certain amount of money, frustration, laughter, good food, good company, and now, is being rounded off by a bad back and a nice cup of tea. Strangely, I don’t have many photos to show you, but I have a couple, so we’ll start with this one.
Early morning leaving Symi on a day that started sunny and ended up wet, but luckily, the only rain we encountered happened while we were in a café in the afternoon. Before that, we had a pleasant crossing to Rhodes where our first stop was the mattress shop.
I’m sure there’s more than one, but the one in Kanadas Street showed us plenty of choice and gave us a fun time as the knowledgeable showroom lady let us have a good lie down on every suitable offering. We ended up with a 50% off sale of a mattress that will be handmade and delivered by the end of March, by which time I would have forgotten we ordered one. That done, I then went off to find a new laptop and am already wishing I hadn’t. (More about that later, but let’s just say, transferring from old to new, Outlook files and email addresses…? Forget it. Easier to start again from scratch. I have an hour set aside later for communication with my email hosting company…)
(That white box beside the grey boxes is the new ticket office for Blue Star Ferries – it’s moved from the cafe to there.)
After that, we had a little time to kill so had a coffee/tea in a café near the marina, which was very swank, and then walked over to the other side of St Nikolas to find the chiropractor. That visit included a discussion about films and books, back and elbow issues, and such choice snippets as, ‘I suppose it’s meant to hurt as much as this is it?’ ‘Yes.’ All for the good though, and that done, I toddled off to walk back to town, where we found a lovely and new, to us, Italian eatery in Mandraki. It’s called Sergio’s, and you can click that to find the website. Fabulous lunch, not too costly, and we ate outside beneath darkening skies. After that, it was a trip to the Hondas Centre to find an aftershave for the yung’un, following on form the shaving lesson of last week, and then my feet had had enough, so we began the walk back to the boat which involved 90 minutes in the Yacht Club waiting for the rain to pass and then a taxi, but we made it back to the boat with plenty of time, and arrived home several hundred euros laughter, the body pulled and pummelled, and without the thing I’d gone to Rhodes to buy, but never mind, I obviously didn’t want it anyway.
Now, it’s back to the daily routine for the rest of the week, a week which has again started with clear skies and a calm sea.
