Mon 28.Jan.2019
Rhodes, Greece
Happy New Year!
A mostly rainy January so far. Even people who say the island needs rain are complaining
about getting it this consistently. Curiously, we do get the occasional half-hour
or so of gorgeous skies, before the roof of clouds closes back in.
The city xmas decor stayed up well into the new tear, even well past Epiphany,
the twelfth day of Christmas. I don't mind them. They add some light to
a darker-than-usual January in a dark time of year.
A wall I hadn't noticed before, in a part of the New Town I rarely visit.
Perhaps I should hike up there more often.
One silver lining to all the rain the past few weeks: rainbows!
A day trip to Symi
Wot's a Symi?
I'm glad you asked. Symi is a small Greek island in the Dodecanese group.
About fifty minutes from Rhodes by catamaran ferry, at least on days when it runs.
Symi is the ferry's first stop of the morning after leaving Rhodes, and the last stop
before returning that evening. So day trippers like us have plenty of time in this
pretty little island. An hour or two more than there really are things
to do there on a Winter day.
Fortunately, both of us old guys
are well-practiced at the two skills we needed here:
hiking up and down the hills of the town,
and sitting and nursing a leisurely coffee.
The clock tower at the ferry dock.
The last layer of land in the middle-ground here just might be the tiny island of
Nimos, described as "uninhabited", though Google Earth seems to show a couple of buildings
on the side facing Symi. If it is uninhabited, I guess there is nobody called
Captain Nimos.
Crusader architecture!
We arrived back in Rhodes after sunset.
It was too dark by then for a good picture, so here is the sunrise from that morning
as we waited to depart for Symi.