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Symi - a walk round Chorio
2009.08.23
About a third of the way down the Kali Strate - a good place to start
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There is an amazing view from here
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I sometime think it looks like toy-town
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a rather special toy-town
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anyway - off up the stairs and off around the village
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ohhh - more stairs!
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nice alleyway
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bit of history here - in this courtyard are a set of steps leading no-where. They are pirate steps - steps that you used to climb up to pour your boiling olive oil or whatever you do pour on pirates from the top - and whilst your door is securely bolted of course!
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not historical - just pomegranates!
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amazing this - the old pharmacy - all boarded up but I managed to get this through a hole in the window - I do hope they preserve it.
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love these steps
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up in the old Medieval part now
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mixed in with relatively modern bits
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they must have been small in those days - this lane is tiny!
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Now at the museum - how times change!
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usual Icons and things
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nice boat
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Glorious decorated chest
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view from museum - I was staying somewhere over on the right
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superb floor patterns - just think how long this took
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courtyard covered with vines
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in what used to be the Symian equivalent of a Manor House
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bit posh!
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great veiw - especially for spotting pirates`!
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more views
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the interior - a lovely space
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another pomegranate
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and I think this is a lemon
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and now we are back to buildings! (sorry Claude!)
By the way the thick black pipe is the mains water supply - more of this anon - but Symi has no water of its own - if you look at the boat in picture 2 you can see the water tanker. |
A late night the day before but up for an 9am start for a walking tour of the old part of Chorio which dates back to Medieval times. 5 hours we were at it - and it was bloody hot too!
But most interesting and well worth doing.
This is only part one - masses more to come!!
But most interesting and well worth doing.
This is only part one - masses more to come!!
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Now this batch of photos looks "Greek" to me, especially the blue doors, lovely!!
DancingDolphin · 2009-08-23: 19:49
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wow, what a beautiful place!! I really want to go there!
jennye · 2009-08-24: 02:05
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