Symi weekend
A few photos from a sunny weekend which included a walk to Yialos, and around, a lunch at To Spitiko, a bus-ride back up and a walk down into the village. On Sunday we took a walk up to the museum and had a look around. It’s been wonderfully restored, through the Sala and a new wing are not quite ready, but we were told it will be ready by the end of the year. Entrance is free, at least at the moment, and the restoration works have been done with some funding from the EU – I doubt the UK will get any such treatment if the mad people in charge there pull the plug on Europe. (Angry face icon not available.)

The harbour was again busy on Saturday with three packed day boats and a cruise ship, plus a hydrofoil from Turkey. The weather was calm and the sea flat. It’s hot in the sun and feels a bit chilly, to me, in the shade, but we’re still in shorts and light shirts. By the way, the Dodecanese Seaways timetable for the beginning of November is now up, they hadn’t decided on the schedule when I last saw it which was why it was empty. Neil can get back to Symi on the Saturday he needs to, but only to Panormitis. He’ll have to get a bus from there or walk. Anyway, here are some random images from the weekend for you.

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Winter boat schedules, Symi
Everything is under control and things are going well here. We’re out and about some days, staying in and being homely on others, the weather is fair again though you can feel the temperature dropping and the sea is calm. All’s well.

I learned a handy tip from Andy who runs the Symi Visitor Travel blog. This may be of interest to anyone coming and going through the winter. I was looking around for boats in November and looked at my usual two sites, Blue Star and Dodecanese Seaways. Blue Star has the timetable there but Dodec doesn’t as yet. (At least that’s what I thought, read on…) Andy suggested looking at Sea Dreams, the day boat that comes in, and I’d not thought to do that as I wasn’t expecting it to run in the winter.

There’s a link to the Timetable in the top menu and then you click on the Symi-Panormitis subtitle and the timetable opens up. It’s dated all the way through to the 6^th March next year. I was looking at a week in November when Neil is coming back from his family visit. Although there’s not a sailing on the Saturday he needs, there is one the following day so if all else fails he can come back on the good old Symi for a bit of nostalgia. The link to Sea Dreams is right here.

By the way, looking at the Dodecanese Seaways timetable for November I noticed that there are sailings advertised from 14^th November through to 20^th December (and possibly beyond, but I didn’t look that far). The Pride is running on six days per week, four of them to Symi – Monday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Strangely, they haven’t listed anything for the first two weeks of November, which means, I assume, the boats will be having a service at that time. Or else they’ve not decided what to do with them yet.

Amway, I didn’t sit down here to babble on about boats, though the links might be handy for you. I sat down to share some more photos, which I’ve done now, so I’m off. Have a good day.

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Thursday
Thursday was… changeable in the morning as these shots from my desk will show you. When things brightened up as they always do around here, we went to Yialos where there was a cruise ship in. Along with the day boats, it made for quite a busy harbour.

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Being useful and finding it useless
I thought I would be helpful today but, after 15 minutes, I gave up. I have this idea for Microsoft Word, an enhancement that would make my life, and the life of others, much easier. When I type a word incorrectly (as I do all the time) and consistently incorrectly, such as ‘staygin’ instead of ‘staying’, for example, I will go to the autocorrect part of Word and add in ‘staygin’ making it automatically correct to ‘staying.’ Needless to say I have hundreds of these autocorrects as I don’t actually type, I just hit the keys in random order and occasionally a properly typed word will come out. The thing is, I spend a lot of time adding in autocorrect words and it would be so much easier if you could right click on the misspelled word – to bring up the spell checker – and then have an option to go straight to autocorrect from there. One right click, click to autocorrect with your misspelled word already entered, enter the real word and click ok. Simple. Much simpler than going to File, options, blah di blah and then filling out words where, by the way, you have to then close the autocorrect box, move down the page to your next set of words you want to add in, re-open the autocorrect box and start again. (There is a short cut I use, which helps a little.)

Anyway, I tried to find a place where you can send in a simple suggestion to Microsoft… and ended up with seven tabs open in my browser, links to forums that didn’t help, Microsoft Connect where the word ‘Word’ wasn’t even recognised, Microsoft Community that led me around in circles, Microsoft Support that led me to pages that I’d already had no luck at, and ‘contact us’ pages that did the same thing. I gave up in the end, they can do without my feedback as it won’t be very pleasant.

Anyway, anyway, I thought I’d just throw that one out there in case anyone does know of a simple page or email address where you can send in your handy tips.

Meanwhile, on Symi, we’re back on dry land, with today’s photos I mean, and we’re waiting for the rain that may or may not come later today or tomorrow (I am writing this on Wednesday). The day started cloudy and windy, the wind died down, the boats came in and the cloud persisted. It’s also warm and a bit humid, but the sun is due back later. I think we are having a stay at home day today, but whatever you are doing, have fun!

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All at sea
A few more at sea photos for you while I take a break from writing words.

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