Late Season Glamour
1 Comments Published by Adriana Shum on Friday, October 23, 2009 at 11:49:00 AM.
Megayachts and software millionaires aside, there are not many people around on Symi apart from residents, Symiot and otherwise. Pick up trucks stacked high with café tables and chairs inch round the waterfront and all the trappings of summer are being packed away into sheds and storerooms. The cafes that stay open are rigging winter awnings and dusting off their patio heaters. With fewer tourists staying on Symi or visiting from Rhodes, many businesses are working shorter hours and employing fewer staff. Others, like Symi Dream, are closing for a few weeks break and will then reopen in their winter format.
Temperatures are still mild for the time of the year but the weather is expected to break this weekend as the low pressure system that is working its way across Italy and mainland Greece reaches us, bringing several days of thunderstorms and, we hope, some much needed rain. http://www.ekathimerini.com/ has published the following:
Weather warning
The General Secretariat for Civil Protection yesterday issued a warning to local authorities that heavy rainfall and thunderstorms are likely to affect much of the country today and tomorrow. The Ionian Sea is expected to be the worst affected with southerly winds forecast to reach 8 or even 9 on the Beaufort scale. Winds are likely to intensify in the central and southern Aegean on Sunday and could affect scheduled passenger ferry itineraries
So it sounds as though winter is on its way!
This will be my last news update from Symi for a while as I am going on leave. I will be back on line on Symi on 10 November.
Regards,
Adriana
Yes, the islanders' favourite time of year. The weather is still good but we "have our island back".
We also like to take advantage of October weather to travel. But this year we are spending the winter in Prague, so we are enjoying Paros until late November. As we will have three months of wet and cold in Prague we no longer take our dry sun for granted.
Cheers,