Tuesday 2nd July
It's the final countdown
Our last day and Liz is again up before me. She has perked up after her day of rest.
It’s Liz’s birthday so she opened the few cards she had brought out with her. It is also our 37th Wedding anniversary so we plan a nice lunch as we don’t want to have a late evening and feel rubbish on our journey back home.
After coffee, I am up and out up over the windmills once again a slow walk down the road to the harbour, litter picking as I go, taking in the view.
There is a nice breeze this morning. The bus, bringing Liz down, just passes me into Yialos. As we pass Jordana at To Spitiko we ask her to save our favourite table on the old side of the taverna for lunch later. A nice coffee break in soft seats before heading round for a sit in the sun on a bench in front of Elpedas. Liz of course looks in all the shops as we go.
We were entertained by two boats trying to sort out their anchors and the Panagia Skiadeni appeared to make a slower than usual berth as it had less room to swing around into the harbour. Finally free, both boats left, no doubt late for wherever they were heading.
We are soon sat in To Spitiko where we shared a wonderful Potato Salad, which had tiny cornichons, capers, spring onions and grated carrot, potato in a lovely dressing of lemon and olive oil. We both followed this with a superb sea bream all washed down with a litre of house white wine.
We said our farewells to Jordana and I headed up the road for the last time. Liz had a last trip up with Lakis in his yellow bus.
It was good to see the Symi street cleaner also cleaning up the road. I’ve done my bit to help picking up well over 100 pieces of mostly bottles and cans. I feel quite proud of this and its not really been a bind.
I take one last pause to take in one of my favourite views and It's the moment I think that our holiday is nearly over.
I call at the apartment and have a quick change before our final session in the Rainbow Bar with Gwen & Pete, Colette, Toby & Neil all coming to say farewell, Neil presents me and Liz with a lucky bag each for our special day and I pose with the sun glasses from my gift!
We left with hugs all round and no doubt we will see you all again soon. We also say our farewell to Yianni who will no doubt sell a little less beer now we are leaving.
Back at no 24 we have the last 15 minutes of the sun before packing and a few Metaxa nightcaps on the balcony before an early night in preparation for the long trip home tomorrow.
It sounds sad but we can only be grateful to have found this heaven on earth!