Actually, two courtyards and a place to sit. It was a day for doing the ‘garden’ yesterday. Not for me, but for Neil who set about replanting the orange rose, weeding the pots and tidying up our courtyard, and this was the end result.
Taken with a wide-angle lens by the looks. Only the other day, he was in Panormitis, and took some photos of the monastery courtyard there, as well as some photos of other parts which I’ll put up here as the days go by. As you can see, it’s a traditionally pebbled courtyard as many are and, I am told, as ours once was. You can still see many such things on Symi. The floor at Georgio’s taverna, for example, and several church courtyards, up at the museum in Horio, and… well just keep your eyes open. It’s the same in Rhodes where in the residential areas, like Saint Nicholas outside Rhodes New Town/Old Town, you can see pebbled side streets, not to mention the Old Town itself, which is more or less completely cobbled. Anyway, before I talk too many cobbles, here’s the Panormitis courtyard.
Finally, this place is on the road out of the village heading up the hill. It’s in the hairpin bend at what was Lavinia Studios, and, I think, a lovely use of otherwise forgotten space. A bench with a view across the road towards Pedi, a handy litter bin, shade and a place to sit and contemplate courtyards, or courts, yards, Yardies, courting…
