A Clear Breezy Autumn Day on Symi

It is a clear breezy autumn day on Symi and the long range forecast remains warm and dry with only the occasional passing cloud. The vapour trails are back. Temperatures are expected to remain in the mid to high twenties for the next week or so.  Usually by this time the Pedi valley is humming with rotavators but this year there has been no rain and the ground is far too hard to work until this happens.

Symi is very quiet now and many summer houses are well and truly shut up for the winter with storm shutters and plastic sheeting to protect doors and windows from the lashing rain and hail that will inevitably arrive at some point in the next 6 months.  I walk to work a little later now and apart from children heading for school I see very few people.  The high price of fuel means fewer cars on the road, and more children being taken to school on motorbikes and scooters or toiling up the Kali Strata on foot.

No cruise ships passed through Symi this week and Yialos is emptying rapidly.  The few yachts visible in the photos have pulled out in the course of this morning. The Proteus and the DodecaneseExpress have come in with day trippers, mainly Russian, which suggests that Rhodes still has some tourists.

Dodecanese Seaways’ schedule for the rest of October is very limited and there are days in the week where they skip out Symi altogether. Fortunately the Proteus continues until the end of the month and there is the Blue Star Diagoras on Wednesday.

A General Strike has been called for 18 October but at this stage it is too soon to tell what may or may not be affected.  I will try to put up more information about this on Monday if it is relevant.  You can also check out www.livingingreece.gr for regular updates.  

Have a good weekend.

Regards,

Adriana