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JuliaB
Starting Visitor
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 09 October 2009 : 23:34:33
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Our recent week on Symi was great but did not get off to the best of starts . . .
Having arrived late evening on the Proteus, we were taken up to Chorio by minibus and then walked from the drop off point to our accommodation. We were advised that our luggage would arrive later and should be collected from outside the Village Hotel. We were also told that there was no crime on Symi and it would be quite safe for the luggage to be unattended. Since it was already almost 10pm and we had had an early start in the morning, we decided to go out immediately for a meal. Crime on Symi? No! Cats on Symi? Yes! We later made the extremely unpleasant discovery that, while our luggage had been unattended, a local cat had marked its territory by urinating on one of the bags . . .
Were we very unfortunate or has this happenend to anyone else?
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benedetti
Super Visitor
473 Posts |
Posted - 10 October 2009 : 09:23:02
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| Look on it as acceptance. |
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Adriana
Persistent Visitor
1430 Posts |
Posted - 10 October 2009 : 09:36:48
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Reminds me of the time when we had just applied the gel coat to a mould for a complicated fibreglassing project and a Pedi tomcat strolled over and sprayed all over the inside of the mould.  Don't know what's in it but the cat spray curdled the gel coat on contact so we had to clean it all off and start over.  Talk about a freak industrial accident! |
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Kojak
Inveterate Visitor
United Kingdom
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Posted - 10 October 2009 : 11:14:34
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| Julia, you could have booked one of the local spiders to wait for your luggage and carry it to your accommodation. |
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Kon
Persistent Visitor
Australia
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Posted - 10 October 2009 : 11:29:30
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Cats have a weird way of revenge ,perhaps in your last visit you shooed the cat away from your dinner table whilst enjoying a meal but the cat remembered you and waited for your next visit ,when the word got around in the Symi cat news paper the" Cat therimni" that your boat arrived it was a simple miaow all the way up to Chorio and a professional hit cat was assigned to leave you a welcome gift.
Moral of the story,always feed the cats. |
ETHO KAI TORA |
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maziemoo
Persistent Visitor
United Kingdom
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Posted - 10 October 2009 : 11:42:56
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Yesterday is experience, tomorrow is hope... today is getting from one to the other. |
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snapperjon
Symi Visitor
United Kingdom
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Posted - 10 October 2009 : 11:51:07
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Aha! That would explain this suspicious character we caught lurking in the bushes in July. You can see by the clear evil in its eyes that this is a ruthless killer.
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we are such stuff as dreams are made on... |
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Kojak
Inveterate Visitor
United Kingdom
2419 Posts |
Posted - 10 October 2009 : 13:09:52
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| Who who think that such danger lurks all around us on Symi. Only the other day someone on Facebook was talking about a Snow Leopard! |
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Jan
Symi Visitor
United Kingdom
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Posted - 10 October 2009 : 17:46:03
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| I had a similar experience once while sitting at Pachos on the last night of our holiday, though it was my (long) skirt rather than my bag which took the hit. One shower and change of clothes later I was back to finish my ouzo. The skirt went home tightly wrapped in a plastic bag but was never the same again. |
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JuliaB
Starting Visitor
United Kingdom
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Posted - 15 October 2009 : 16:56:31
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| Many thanks for all your good humoured replies. I hasten to add that the incident has not deterred us in the least from visiting Symi. Must remember to book a spider next time as advised by Kojak and look out for the ginger fella caught on camera by Snapperjon . . . |
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Kojak
Inveterate Visitor
United Kingdom
2419 Posts |
Posted - 15 October 2009 : 19:57:02
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| If you want a spider to carry your luggage, Julia, you need to book early. The portmanteau sized ones are often taken early. |
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MacDuff
Senior Visitor
Canada
833 Posts |
Posted - 19 October 2009 : 05:20:10
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Perhaps the time has come........ Let's hope the ginger felines go off to the Pedi valley and savagely attack the G.I.N.G.E.R. Turkey ....... or at least give him a good spray ..... or two |
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Adriana
Persistent Visitor
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Posted - 19 October 2009 : 10:59:44
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| On a different but related topic, I found an item in a German magazine lately. Apparently male pandas do handstands in the trees so that they can spray higher on the trunk than they would do ordinarily so that female pandas will think that they are taller than they are... |
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Kojak
Inveterate Visitor
United Kingdom
2419 Posts |
Posted - 19 October 2009 : 12:33:03
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It's a man thing, Adriana!  |
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Kon
Persistent Visitor
Australia
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Posted - 19 October 2009 : 23:05:15
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ETHO KAI TORA |
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snoopy2
Symi Visitor
United Kingdom
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Posted - 20 October 2009 : 08:07:59
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quote:
Originally posted by Adriana
On a different but related topic, I found an item in a German magazine lately. Apparently male pandas do handstands in the trees so that they can spray higher on the trunk than they would do ordinarily so that female pandas will think that they are taller than they are...
That is surely an april 1 story Adriana. Logically there would have to be amazon tall females to get the whiff!!A tall story methinks |
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A Cautionary Tale
