- Zoe's Silver Bream
Tuesday - Day 8
Where has the time gone. The first week is almost at an end !
We woke up to blue skies again and the temperature is 28C and the humidity has dropped from mid 60s % to 44% (D and his gadgets !!!).
By the time we had a leisurely breakfast, wrote up yesterday's notes and resized some photos for the blog it was 11:00 so time to head down the School Steps for our usual frappe stop. As we do we encounter the arrival of Symi Dream and the day trippers are being assembled into their groups. We battle through the throng.
Over frappe the backlog of posts and photos get posted and the usual plethora of email deleted. Our aim is for Nimborio - try, try and try again.
The taxi boats are still not operating from Yialos. The sign is up outside Symi Tours offering bus trips to Panormitis / Marathounda and to Tolis but when we enquire within we find that this is pre-advertising as the tavernas are not open yet - maybe during our second week.
So we start heading to Nimborio and stop to catch up with Manolis & Angeliki at Odyssia - things are quiet. We then decide to have a beer stop and share a toastie at Nos where "building works" continue. There were no more than 10 people on the beach. By now it was 14:00 so we continued to set out towards Nimborio but by the time we reached the left turning that brings you back to Yialos over by the church we decided to do that. And coming over the top we took the turning opposite the cemetery and past the "zoo" where there are some exotic ducks, some deer, horses and a swan. We were then able to just follow gravity down the maze of steps and come out in the town square beside the plant shop.
We then popped into the Corner Cafe for a chat with "the lads" before heading back up the Kali Strata and a supermarket run to replenish the essentials.
Back out to Yiannis and then to Zoe's where we had the lightest courgette balls and tuna salad to start. E had chicken souvlaki and D had the silver bream which was barbecued and presented beautifully with potatoes, carrots, peppers, onions, garlic and was an absolutely steal at only €18. The dish is now fixed price unlike many restaurants where fish is sold by weight.
And so it was almost 11:30 when we returned to the apartment - quite late for D&E.