From our mailbox

From: Sue Orchard
To: Symi Visitor
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 4:59 PM
Subject: Another great holiday

Dear all
 
Just a quick note to say we are home safely and back into the old routine.
 
As always, we had a wonderful holiday. Having booked the Cottage through you for a number of years now, it is all too easy to become complacent and to assume that things will go without a hitch, without recognising that it's your hard work that makes everything perfect. So, our thanks to you all - we look forward to seeing you next year.
 
Have a good winter.
 
Love and Best Wishes     Sue


Saturday 29th September

Hi Wendy
I just want to thank you so very much for organising a taxi to pick us up off the ferry at Rhodes and to take us to the airport.
 
It made the whole process so much easier for my wife. Yannis was very helpful and kind too.
Thank you all there at the Symi Visitor. I really do feel that through your efforts you have done so much for Symi.
Regards and all being well, we will see you next year, same time.
 
Ian and Diane Wall


Tuesday 25th September

Dear Adriana and Wendy

I felt extremely well looked after by you both when I was visiting Symi: thank you for being such excellent hosts, as it were. I had a terrific week, and am yearning to be back already!
All good wishes

Yours ever

Julian
London


To: The Symi Visitor
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 12:29 PM
Subject: RE: Hotel Fiona 12-14 September

Hello Adriana

I had a lovely time with my son on Symi last week staying at Hotel Fiona with Micheal and Fiona. I thanked them when we left but was not able to thank you and Wendy for all your help via email with booking the hotel and travel arrangements. I’d like to say thank you now.

Best wishes

Andy
Andrew Jessop

PS I picked up a copy of the Symi Visitor newspaper at a café as soon as we arrived. It is marvellous. I really enjoyed it.

Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 7:12 PM

Hi Wendy,
Just wanted to say thank you for making our recent visit so easy and welcoming.  We all had a lovely holiday and Villa Jasmine is the best accommodation we have ever had on our many visits to your wonderful island. Thanks again, see you next year.
 
Simon, Paula, Donna, Pat and Molly.


To: The Symi Visitor
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: THINKING OF VISITING SYMI IN JUNE


Hi all at Symi Visitor

Just wanted to give you all a BIG thanks for your help during our stay in Symi last week, it truly is a gorgeous island and we loved it, perfect weather and beautiful views. We would love to return at some point and would automatically contact you.

Thanks again - from dreary dull Scotland (weather wise).


Shonand & Murdo Wilson

Subject:  Testimonial
Date: 8th May 2007

Dear Symi Visitor people

I would like to thank you all once more about arranging to my wife and to me very nice holidays at Symi. The location was very good and your hospitality as well first class. When ever we or some of our friends will plan to visit Symi we will be in touch with your office. Have a nice summer

Rgds
Markku

Hi Wendy, Adriana, Nick and Fiona (and I didn't catch the other lady's name who works in the hotel)


This is Laura Ward (formerly Colley) and Ian here. Just dropping you a note to say what a fantastic time we had in Symi on 15-17th July this year. The hotel studio was absolutely perfect - the decor, surroundings, views, bathroom were so nice and remarkably clean. Perfect for a honeymoon getaway (from the family back in Rhodes!). I can still remember sitting out on the balcony drinking my wine reading a book as the sun was setting and the ever so slight, warm fragrant breeze blowing through the voiles. The lovely Greek style breakfasts ate out on the terrace - everything was fantastic We had such a relaxing, fantastic time the beaches were beautiful the water was so clear. The 2 restaurants that we ate in were lovely (one near the Fiona that belongs to the taxi boat man), and one on the harbour. We even enjoyed walking the steps to and from the harbour (although going up was always harder than coming down - but by then we'd had a couple of drinks and everything seemed mellow!!!).

I would most definitely recommend Symi and in Particular Hotel Fiona to anyone - and we can't wait to come back maybe on our anniversary in a few years time!!!

Kind Regards

Laura and Ian Ward

Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 9:02 PM
Subject: Great times
 
Wendy, Nik and Adriana
 
Mountains of thanks for saving our holiday this year. Once again never made it to Karpathos ( 3rd year running ) but Symi is more than a great substitute.
 
Being greeted off the Marina ferry by Wendy saying " you're not supposed to be here yet " to go and get a beer in Pachos and we'll sort you out saved us from what was a bit of a bad start to four and a half weeks in Greece.
 
True to her word rooms were found and our holiday started for real.
 
I cannot thank them or praise their expertise enough.
 
Thanks again
 
Sue and Iaan Burgon
xxx
 

To: symi-vis@otenet.gr

Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 12:43 PM
Subject: Thanks
 
Hi Wendy/Adriana,
 
Just to say thanks for arranging our stay at the Hotel Fiona and the last day at the Hotel Hermes in Rhodes.
 
I have a hatred of package trips to Greece and have travelled independently to most of the islands over the years.
 
Your service took the hassle out of finding accommodation on arrival but left us with the freedom travelling independently gives you.
 
Thanks very much - will be recommending you to friends and colleagues.
 
Suzy and Trevor    
 

To: "Symi Visitor" <symi-vis@otenet.gr>
Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 2:05 PM
Subject: hola!!

HI WENDY & ADRIANA!

ONCE WE'VE SETTLED DOWN IN MADRID, WITH FANTASTIC IMAGES OF SYMI  STILL IN OUR MINDS, AND TANNED AND HEALTHY LOOKING FACES, I WOULD LIKE YOU TO KNOW THAT WE FEEL SO GRATEFUL TO YOU FOR MAKING EVERYTHING SO EASY FOR US TO ENJOY AND ESPECIALLY  FOR THE INCREDIBLE HOUSE YOU GOT FOR US, HOW RIGHT I WAS TO TRUST YOU!! ALSO FOR THE HOLLYWOOD LIKE RESCUE AT AGIOS VASILIOS, WHAT FUN!!

DON'T BE SURPRISED IF YOU SEE MORE SPANISH PEOPLE SOON AT YOUR BEAUTIFUL OFFICE.

ALL OUR BEST WISHES.
NACHO, RENATA, JAIME, DIEGO, MIGUEL AND INES.

Hello Wendy and Nic

I would just like to thank you for organising our wonderful stay on Symi. We of course especially were very well entertained by you both that night at drinks.

I'm sure that all the arrangements you made for the wedding (on the day we left) went perfectly well.

We're on Skiathos now, and I have to say Nic, you'd have a much better chance of getting a lawn-mowing round here.

Thanks again

Terri and Julian
ex 2 Fishes


Dear Wendy and Symi Visitor

Sorry we are a bit late giving response to you - but we would indeed like to say that we had a wonderful holiday in April in Symi staying in Villa Rose. The house is very nice and it was excellent for five people, placed in a fine area in Chorio - and with a wonderful view. We had some great and long walks in the mountains, very peaceful beaches (none but us and some goats) and some fine nights in the tavernas or in the house. Meeting with the owner of the house was great, a very nice guy - and seeing Symi in springtime was fantastic, even in a day with rain and one with dust-storm.

Hopefully we will return one day - best wishes from Inger, Ib, Troels, Nina and Viktoria

 NB We enjoyed  reading the newspaper very much, it's a great chance for tourist/Symi fans like us to get some "insight" knowledge. We also met and had coffee with an old friend, Maria Zuruvi, whom we first met in 1992 when we stayed in part of her house (at that time I do not think Symi Visitor rented out houses. This was through Skiby in Denmark) Maria is a wonderfull little lady and she provied us with fresh lemon and eggs for our breakfast, so if you meet her, send our love! She will remember us if you mention the "little"one of our three kids, Viktoria, who is now 16 but only 2 when she first came to Symi.

 
Love from us all, enjoy your summer
 
Inger,  Ib,  Viktoria,  Troels and Nina, Denmark


Viktoria in Spring


Hello Wendy and Adriana

Just a quick e mail to say thank you very much for making our holiday perfect.   We found out lots about our family and saw many sights even more than we had hoped for.   The Greek Easter in Pireaus was something we will never forget, maybe one day we will celebrate it on Symi.  I could not believe that my mum was a cousin of Alexopolous, the Symi photographer.  We were only haggling over the price of sponges with him the day before. 

I have seen the photograph of us on the Web Site,  it looks pretty good.  We will never forget our Symi holiday and hope to return there sometime but without the hectic schedule this time.  Everything went clockwork, the flights, the ferry crossing and even Stematis our local taxi driver!

Once again a very big thank you from me and my mum.

Regards
Shirley
 

Hi,

Just want to write to you and tell you how much me and my wife like your site. We are coming to Symi in June and we really like all the information that we can read on your site, It will be our first visit to Symi and our second time to Greece. We were on Crete in September  last year.  I think that we will find Symi more relaxing...........  After looking around on your site we realise that your island is the  most beautiful of all the islands in Greece.

 Wishing it was June right now........

 Goran and Christina
 Falkenberg
 SWEDEN

Hello Wendy and Adriana,

Just a quick note to thank you for all your help in making our first attempt at doing-it-ourselves a roaring success. Despinas Apartments are very good and apart from the hulk of the "Lazy Days" being smack bang in the middle of your vista, have brill views over the bay.

My wife, having stayed at the Pedi Hotel last year, was initially a little bit down with Despinas. But quickly warmed to the apartment, the mezzanine bedroom, she appreciated the views and the fact that being round the corner from the main harbour area, the area was quiet and restful, and we had Nos beach just up the road. At the moment we're planning to come back next year - so she wasn't that disappointed!

Cheers for now,

John Gooding.


Dear Wendy and Co,

Just a brief note to say a huge thank you for all your help. We had the most relaxing, wonderful holiday in Symi. Everything we had heard proved to be true and it really was just perfect. We were really impressed by Hotel Fiona. The views are spectacular and it was comfortable and spotless. An excellent base. We also really appreciated the arrangement with the Plaza in Rhodes -  it made a huge difference to our final few hours in Greece (although thanks to Thomas Cook we were a few hours longer than expected!)

Many, many thanks. We will most definitely be back!!

Best wishes Fiona & Alasdair Downes

Wendy

Just a quick note to say a big 'THANK YOU' for everything you did
regarding our wedding.  The day was so relaxed and we enjoyed every minute of it.  In fact the whole holiday was the best we have ever had on Symi in all the years we have been travelling there.  So much so that now we are back in England we wonder why we stay here and the prospect of living on Symi is more and more appealing.  It's not just the holiday feeling etc its the whole way of life on Symi which was brought home to us. 

Anyway thanks once again for all you did and I look forward to seeing you soon - we may need your help with coming to live out there in the not too distant future.

One thing we forgot to do was subscribe to the Symi visitor - how do we do that now we are back in England?

Look forward to hearing from you soon keep in touch

Noel & Ian
 

Dear Wendy and Adriana,

Thank you for organising our holiday in Hotel Fiona this year, we had an absolutely wonderful time, going independent definitely has its advantages, we left last Wednesday on 08:45am ferry, arrived home in Oxfordshire at 18:30pm! I am still in Greek mode and driving everybody at work nuts talking about Symi all the time.
Thanks again

Kind regards
Lesley & John  Butler
 

Dear Wendy and Adriana:
Thank you for such great arrangements.  We are only disappointed in the winds that kept us two days late arriving.  I've just been reading about the Persian invasions also confounded by the winds, so they can be forgiven a little.   We love the Harani!   Nik's taxi arrangements for our pre dawn departure were fantastic;  that was wonderful service.  We think you are all great. I trimmed the seed pods from the Oleanders because our garden people here recommend that for good future growth.  (I have a huge Oleander
garden) I hope that was OK.  With more time we could really get into that garden!

Adriana, my favorite recipes so far are the grilled peppers.  For practical reasons I just baked them in a very hot oven with the same effect. It's a great sauce!  Thank you.  Also I love your twice weekly column; it is becoming the first thing I check on Mondays and Fridays.

Warmest greeting to all of you.
Patricia Taylor

Dear Wendy & Adriana

I am now back in quite sunny Bournemouth - a fraction of the
temperature in Symi.

Just to say what an absolutely wonderful time we had in Symi.  The
villa was fabulous - we left a note for Helene in her picture gallery saying how we loved the house.

Our trip home was great - no delays - and the chap in the Plaza was a star, let us use the pool and looked after us.  Many thanks, Wendy, for that - despite arranging from your hospital bed !!

Symi is a very special place and I know we will be back.  It's always
a risk taking a mixed-age group of people on holidays but everyone had a good time - the kids certainly left their mark on the local night spots !!
We have already put some pix through on the computer and it now seems like a dream.  We have some good internal shots of the house and views - once we sort them all out I will try an email a few to you which might be of use in your publicity.
Thank you both for all your help before and during the holiday and I
hope Wendy makes a speedy recovery - I'm sure you need all hands on deck for August.

Hope the rest of the season goes really well.

Best wishes to you both.

Diane

Hi Wendy and Adriana,

I just wanted to write and say thank you very much for making the holiday accessible to me, and for the care put into the Harani House welcome. We had a wonderful stay apart from when our friend fell for a mountain goat, quite literally!!  Thus we will be back next year.

I'll check the website to see which place we want to go to.

A question.... is the weather normally as good as we had, for the time of year.  Someone somewhere said that the September temperatures this year were exceptional and should have been the August ones. I liked the temperatures we experienced, so also want to ensure much as possible, that we get the right dates for me to continue worshipping the old sun-god.

Cheerily,

Justine


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