Symi To and Fro
Sunday morning on Symi… A whole day ahead with nothing much planned and so the questions is, what to do? I’ve been asked to write a piece for a new site that might be of interest to you, the Greek City Times. The site has several sections including news, lifestyle (travel) and Culture and I’ve been asked to write something about moving to Greece and what Symi has on offer. Not sure how many words yet, I mean, I could fill a book, as you know, but they probably don’t want that much. So, I am going to put my mind to that this week.
Also this week we have a small birthday gathering for Neil on Thursday, I say small, it did at least start small, now it’s up to 20 people on an evening out, down to Mythos in the harbour, so we are looking forward to that. There are, as yet, no other engagements in the diary for the week so I am looking forward to a few quiet days at home, for a change. I may even be able to get up and out for a dawn walk. Famous last words.
We were out twice over the weekend (so far). In Friday we walked down to Pedi with a friend and had a meal at Tolis, the taverna on the left hand side of the bay. This taverna serves traditional Greek food with a barbeque going, mezethes and oven dishes and is nicely priced. There was a breeze down there and it was the first time since May that I have worn a long sleeved shirt. The sleeves were soon rolled back up again later when the breeze died down. We caught the bus back up at 22.30 and joined people in the village square for a nightcap. On Saturday, after a blissful day of pottering around the house and doing very little, we went to Yialos and had dinner with other friends at Bella Napoli. This is an Italian restaurant with a wood over for pizzas, other interesting dishes based round seafood and chicken they also do steaks with sauces; I went for the chicken with gorgonzola and very nice it was too. We caught the 23.00 but up to the village afterwards and joined others in the square for… well, you know the routine.
It’s all rather quiet at the house at the moment as Jack, the Alarm Cat, is out on a field trip. You might have read last week that he went out on Wednesday night after an unsettled day at home. We think he is in the mood for a wander, and I’m pretty sure it’s the same time as last year when he went on an eight-day holiday and came back looking healthy and refreshed. We’re not unduly worried about him, he’s big enough to look after himself despite being deaf, and he knows where his home is should he want to come back. He might have gone back to his old house again but if so, he won’t recognise it as it’s now been, or is being, renovated. I am sure he’s fine so there’s no need to worry. The mornings are quieter without the alarm call, though the fan is still running in the bedroom, and the window is open so the sounds of the road filter in and we can’t hear him much in the mornings against those sounds anyway.
And so, here we go off into the week with only one engagement planned and a lot of writing to do as I start to work up ideas for the article and for a new book of travel tales. The working title for this one at the moment is ‘Symi, to and fro’ as it’s about travel stories as much as it is about living on Symi. I best get typing, have a good day.
