Spring Finery
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Women’s Day dawned grey and blustery on Symi and the Blue Star Diagoras has
just come in about 5 hours late, en route to Rhodes and Kastellorizon. There was a good turnout for the Dodecanese
Day parade yesterday and everyone then settled down to an afternoon of grilling
souvlaki and sausages out of the wind for Tsiknopempti. The long term weather forecast remains
unsettled with lots more squally showers expected for the weekend and next week.
The satellite picture on the BBC this morning was an endless progression of
fronts from here to the North Atlantic, an impression reiterated by SKAI, one
of the Greek television channels. While
the weather might not be as bright as we might wish the lengthening days and
slowly rising temperatures have woken up the dormant deciduous trees in the
Pedi Valley and the apricot trees have started to flower. The orange and lemon trees are laden with
rapidly ripening fruit and trusses of fragrant blossom.
Many thanks
to Neil from Symi Dream for loaning me a spare camera to tide me over the gap
until I can replace mine. Now I need to
have a sunny interval to take some photographs of Symi in her spring finery.
Have a good
weekend.
Regards,
Adriana
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