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| The Greek and EU flags,, fluttering brightly on the bridge in Yialos. |
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| Ducks ... |
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| ... crossing the street... |
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| ... and heading for Eva's cafe. |
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| The customs slipway, looking as it usually does in the summer. |
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| Small birds in search of fallen crumbs outside the bakery. |
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| Galloping white horses across the bay on Wednesday mornning. The captain of the Diagoras chickened out of docking and will forever more be referred to as Captain Kotopolou (chicken in Greek)! |
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| The cold north wind brings clear skies and an inky blue sea - not to mention plummeting temperatures. It has been below freezing the last couple of nights. |
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| Stormy seas off Pedi. |
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| Happy Chinese New Year! It is the year of the sheep... |
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| The air smells of wood smoke as nearly everyone has a wood burning fire these days and in these temperatures they are in use. |
It is another cold and windy day on Symi. The
Blue Star should, we hope, be docking in Symi tonight en route to Piraeus. Not only did she not stop in Symi on the way through to Rhodes on Wednesday but she was unable to dock in Rhodes either and spent the night lying off Pefkos/Lardos, half way down the south side of Rhodes, only making her way into Akandia late on Thursday afternoon, 48 hours after leaving Piraeus. This winter really seems to have been worse than usual in terms of weather-rerlated ferry problems with not a single week going according to schedule. We are all hoping that March will be better.
This weekend is a holiday long weekend. It is Carnival on Sunday and Monday is Clean Monday, the start of Orthodox Lent. I will be back on Tuesday!
Have a good weekend.
Regards,
Adriana
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