Our End of the Mediterranean

The weather continues stormy and unsettled in our end of the Mediterranean with lots of spring thundershowers and squally downpours alternating with bright sunshine and exceptionally good visibility. Temperatures are slightly lower than is normal for this time of the year as most of the rain has been coming from the north instead of the usual southerly dust storms and mud rain off Africa.   Fortunately the weather was fine for the blessing of the Olive Tree in Chorio on Saturday.  You will find photographs of this on symi-photos.com.

The men from DEH, the Public Power Corporation, are still busy on Symi, installing poles, pylons and transformers. There was a 12 hour powercut on Symi on Sunday and even the mobile phone net work was off the air for much of that time. If the webcam and our emails are a bit haphazard it means that once again we are without electricity.

Something that visitors to Greece often don’t realize is that the best fishing is in the cooler months. This fine example of a yellow-finned tuna (palamida) was plucked from Symi harbour on Friday afternoon by Fotini, the daughter of Dimitri, the original ‘Mr Tasty’. From the water to the grill at Mr Tasty’s taverna is a matter of mere metres – you can’t really get fish fresher than that!

Have a good week.

Regards,

Adriana