A Golden Morning

It is a beautiful golden morning on Symi. The full moon that has filled our nights with light has also brought a spring tide and the boats are riding high in the harbour, water sloshing up through the gratings and swirling up the customs’ house slipway. Silvery squills glisten as the rising sun gilds the hills.

The season may be drawing to a close but the island is still extremely full. Regular visitors at this time are surprised to find accommodation in short supply and we are still receiving booking enquiries for those desperate for a patch of half term sunshine. We hope that the weather holds this October and isn’t like last year when the heaviest downpour of the entire rainy season fell in the middle of the month, washing away chunks of the Panormitis road and flooding the harbour. Lots of people had to leave a day early to avoid missing flights as gale force winds disrupted shipping. Fortunately such extremes are not a normal October occurrence.

The long range forecast at the moment shows a big high pressure system hanging over Greece with fine weather for the next week or so. Although showers have occurred on the mainland and in the north we have had nothing more than the sprinkling of rain in the early hours of 1 September, and that is now a month ago.

Have a peaceful weekend.

Regards,
Adriana