Happy May Day!

The view from Symi Visitor Accommodation this morning - a bit murky and overcast but actually hot and humid.

A yacht making an early morning start from Pedi today.

Easter Saturday in Yialos.  It is traditional to give children candles decorated with small toys for Easter.  The toys are removed before the candles are lit for the Saturday night Easter procession.

We had quite a lot of red rain on Symi on Friday evening, covering everything in a fine film of red dust.  Here a crew member sets to work, scrubbing it off the Poseidon excursion boat.

Many tavernas and other tourist businesses scheduled their official opening for the season for this weekend to make the most of the many Greeks visiting their families on Symi.

A forest of white chair legs in Yialos.

A supermarket cat, waiting patiently for titbits.

Have they fallen out?

No, just waiting for the drover.

It probably sounds silly but my eye is often caught by the interesting patterns and compositions created on washing lines.  A tumbler drier never creates such pleasing combinations of shapes and colours.

Retro style in Chorio.

The municipality has put a lot more benches in around the harbour.  The only snag is that they have also taken away a lot of the already limited parking.

As we don't have any traffic wardens on Symi due to the austerity cutbacks, the island has had to resort to specially trained cats like this one, watching out for vehicles coming the wrong way up the one way street in Chorio.