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    <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:35:24 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Symi News</title>
      <link>http://www.symichat.com/read.php?1,53540,53559#msg-53559</link>
      <author>Lizzykitch</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Thanks Guys xx]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:35:24 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>Alerta!!  Anti-Fascista!!  Athini</title>
      <link>http://www.symichat.com/read.php?1,53558,53558#msg-53558</link>
      <author>Lizzykitch</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Dear Friends at Symi Greece,

On 19th January 2013 there is an International call out for people all over the world to demonstrate in solidarity with Greece against the disgusting rise of Nazis and Fascists.  I hope that something can be organised on Symi in recognition of this very dangerous development.  I am going to be attending the Anti-Fascist Demonstration in London that day.  I know that such demonstrations are being organised in towns and cities everywhere in the world where possible.

We know that Fascists and Nazis are spreading politics of hate and despair with lies and violence against immigrants, leftists and communists and against women and gays and lesbians and the trade unionists. This is with open collusion inside the police! This can be stopped with international solidarity.  In Britain we have kept the nazis and fascists down where they belong with our work in communities and inside the trade union movement etc.  This can work in Greece and the rest of Europe also.

Down with the filthy fascists of Golden Dawn!
Love, peace and freedom for all humanity!
Remember the slogan after the Nazi Holocaust &quot;NEVER AGAIN&quot;!
Unite all people against the lies and join in with politics of hope!
Stop The Capitalist Troika which has created the conditions for the rise of Fascism!

Thank you and ONE LOVE..(love...)xx]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 05:42:12 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>downloading</title>
      <link>http://www.symichat.com/read.php?1,53557,53557#msg-53557</link>
      <author>OzJen</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I have created a file, but when I try to upload it gives a message file to big or not allowed. Please explain.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 01:52:22 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>Yialos - Time Lapse</title>
      <link>http://www.symichat.com/read.php?1,53556,53556#msg-53556</link>
      <author>Alan</author>
      <description><![CDATA[[center]
Symi Time Lapse

&amp;nbsp;
Symi Time lapse...
Kim Rormark...
Vimeo...[/center]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 04:05:45 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Symi GeoCaching</title>
      <link>http://www.symichat.com/read.php?1,53555,53555#msg-53555</link>
      <author>Alan</author>
      <description><![CDATA[What is geocaching?
Geocaching is a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices. Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at that location.
&amp;nbsp;
[url=http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?lat=36.61616&amp;lng=27.83568&amp;dist=10]SymiGeoCaching Website - click here[/url]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 04:40:44 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: The Breath-taking Hypocrisy of &quot;Symi Animal Welfare&quot;</title>
      <link>http://www.symichat.com/read.php?1,53536,53554#msg-53554</link>
      <author>Christos</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Yes, maybe they can carry on with their &quot;winter feeding program&quot; (though many residents are calling this something else), but that's about it really. Needless to say that NO illegal activity of ANY KIND by ANYONE from their &quot;committee members&quot; or anyone else will ever be allowed again. And I 'm not &quot;just&quot; talking about them treating Symi as a third-world island in need of their &quot;illegal&quot; &quot;welfare&quot;. 

For more details, see the next issue of the SYMI NEWS newspaper, out this weekend. 

If you want to carry on living in Greece, English and German ex-pats included, you need to abide by the laws of this land, and that includes animal-welfare laws as well, especially when their Greek equivalents are struggling because of your &quot;complaints&quot;. The law is there, it is fierce, and IT WILL apply to you too! And we'll make sure it does.

I 'm glad &quot;Claudia, Melanie, Tove, Hazel and Suzan&quot; didn't dare name anyone by name in their “how-primitive-Greece-is-it-can't possibly-follow the-law-and-it-needs-us-foreigners-to-teach-them” rant (too scared no doubt, and I don't blame them - they should be scared of the Greek law, very much so).

If the “Claudia &amp; Co” seriously wanted vets to come to Symi for the benefit of the animals, they would have supported FAROS. Instead, they stopped it from happening.

They have noone to blame but themselves.

If they want to care for the animals of Symi, we support them! 100%! As long as they don't do ANYTHING illegal. If they do, they WILL be prosecuted!

And they WILL be... ALL and everyone of them...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:41:43 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>The Breath-taking Hypocrisy of &quot;Symi Animal Welfare&quot;</title>
      <link>http://www.symichat.com/read.php?1,53536,53553#msg-53553</link>
      <author>Will</author>
      <description><![CDATA[A bleating message, filled with the usual lies that we've come to expect from Symi Animal Welfare has appeared on their website.  It lambasts me and Christos for stopping the visit of a vet to Symi that they had hoped would happen at the end of this month.  They say how we have shown our &quot;true colours&quot; and that we are not interested in animal welfare on Symi.  They say that they have had to waste valuable time trying to avoid unnecessary conflict created by us when we should be concentrating on the animals of Symi.

I wonder if I will ever stop being surprised by the sheer brazen hypocrisy of these people.  It really is amazing.

FAROS was bringing vets to Symi for three years. For the past two years it has not been able to do so because SAW and their friends prevented them....they complained that FAROS's clinics were unlicensed.  SAW have consistently been against FAROS since it started, refusing to become a signatory and partner of the organisation when it started up, refusing to loan us cat baskets for our first vet visit, refusing to bring even a SINGLE STREET ANIMAL to the 8 surgeries that FAROS ran...think about that one, these people who care so much about Symi's animals did not bring a SINGLE street cat for neutering in the more than 20 days that FAROS operated surgeries on Symi.  They have consistently spread lies about FAROS and what it does, saying in their web postings that FAROS does not neuter cats, despite being told many, many times that it does.

FAROS stopped two years ago as the Vets could no longer come because of the threat of legal action against them for operating in an unlicensed clinic.  For two years we have been trying to clear the obstacles that SAW and their friends put in our way, and we are almost there.  Soon FAROS will be running again.  I have no doubt that SAW will carry on refusing to bring animals to FAROS surgeries, and I have no doubt that they will continue to spread their lies.  There was no way that FAROS could continue in its efforts to start up again if we sat by and allowed SAW to run an unlicensed clinic, it would have made a mockery of the past two years and the effort and expense that we have had to go through to get FAROS licensed.

I wish that they could have risen above their petty jealousies and politics five years ago when FAROS first asked them to come onboard and be part of the initiative of bringing Greek vets to Symi, rather than sneer at the idea that Greek vets would care to come.  I wish that they could have put the animals first, and supported FAROS, rather than lie about it to as many people as they could find.  I wish they could have overcome their jealousy and hate enough to have brought street animals to the FAROS surgeries.  By opposing FAROS and actively undermining it, SAW have simply become part of the problem, yet another burden for the animals of Symi.  They will carry on with their winter feeding program, but they will never again bring vets to Symi to work in unsanitary, unlicensed clinics.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 05:20:45 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: The Uncomfortable Side of Symi :(</title>
      <link>http://www.symichat.com/read.php?1,53549,53552#msg-53552</link>
      <author>Will</author>
      <description><![CDATA[No...I think that one's more likely to catch one of them.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 11:34:34 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: The Uncomfortable Side of Symi :(</title>
      <link>http://www.symichat.com/read.php?1,53549,53551#msg-53551</link>
      <author>Simon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[They diden't catch this bugger!]]></description>
      <category>English</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2012 14:05:25 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: The Uncomfortable Side of Symi :(</title>
      <link>http://www.symichat.com/read.php?1,53549,53550#msg-53550</link>
      <author>Will</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Repulsive things :-(
Our cats catch 'em and kill 'em]]></description>
      <category>English</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2012 11:29:49 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>The Uncomfortable Side of Symi :(</title>
      <link>http://www.symichat.com/read.php?1,53549,53549#msg-53549</link>
      <author>Alan</author>
      <description><![CDATA[[center]
Hairy Friends of Symi

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      <category>English</category>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2012 02:40:29 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Symi 360° Videos</title>
      <link>http://www.symichat.com/read.php?1,53548,53548#msg-53548</link>
      <author>Alan</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Click the &quot;Locations&quot; menu to choose your videos: 
&amp;nbsp;
[url=http://www.greecevirtual.gr/panoramic/symi/tour.html]Symi 360° Videos[/url]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 04:37:40 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: The true story...</title>
      <link>http://www.symichat.com/read.php?1,53536,53547#msg-53547</link>
      <author>Christos</author>
      <description><![CDATA[The link to the true story about SAW is also available via the front page of SG.com.]]></description>
      <category>English</category>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 18:47:54 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>The true story...</title>
      <link>http://www.symichat.com/read.php?1,53536,53546#msg-53546</link>
      <author>Will</author>
      <description><![CDATA[For those wanting to understand the issues behind the posts in this thread, I suggest you click the following link for the full, true story.  It includes a recent update.


http://www.symigreece.com/mysymi/blogs/Will/862.htm


...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:49:52 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Mayor gives official response to SAW lie</title>
      <link>http://www.symichat.com/read.php?1,53536,53545#msg-53545</link>
      <author>Christos</author>
      <description><![CDATA[SymiGreece.com is also carrying the story of how Melanie Sharp and the SAW have tried to implicate the Mayor and the Council of Symi by implying that they would ever support another illegal activity by SAW: http://www.symigreece.com

There will be a lot more to this story in the next issue of the SYMI NEWS newspaper which will be out in the next few days.

Needless to say that the authorities in Symi, Rhodes and Athens have already been informed and prosecutions will follow in the event of ANY illegal SAW activity taking place on Symi.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:46:07 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Mayor gives official response to SAW lie</title>
      <link>http://www.symichat.com/read.php?1,53536,53544#msg-53544</link>
      <author>Will</author>
      <description><![CDATA[..and here's the official reply from the Mayor to a question by the Symi News regarding the allegation made by Melanie Sharp that he supports another illegal SAW vet visit and will be helping them find a building for the clinic:


[b]SUBJECT: Question about a possible vet visit on Symi[/b]

In response to your 4172/4/10/2012 document, we inform you that the Municipality has not been informed, nor has given approval for the organisation of a vet visit on Symi at the end of October and therefore Municipal premises will not be granted to accommodation such clinic.

The Mayor,
Eleftherios Papakalodoukas


..]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:37:55 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Ferry Timetables December?????</title>
      <link>http://www.symichat.com/read.php?1,53542,53543#msg-53543</link>
      <author>Will</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hi Jen,  I think we're quite some way off having timetables for these dates...and they may not come out until late November or even December.  Watch the page, and when they're available they'll be posted up.]]></description>
      <category>English</category>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2012 04:02:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Ferry Timetables December?????</title>
      <link>http://www.symichat.com/read.php?1,53542,53542#msg-53542</link>
      <author>OzJen</author>
      <description><![CDATA[When can I expect December ferry timetables?
We will be in Athens from 12 th December and need to get to Symi.]]></description>
      <category>English</category>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 21:30:19 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Symi News</title>
      <link>http://www.symichat.com/read.php?1,53540,53541#msg-53541</link>
      <author>Will</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Sorry Lizzie, not this month...too much Greek News. We have some English content and will try and publish it (maybe an online-only English version...there's a thought...)]]></description>
      <category>English</category>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 06:37:23 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Symi News</title>
      <link>http://www.symichat.com/read.php?1,53540,53540#msg-53540</link>
      <author>Lizzykitch</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hi Guys, is there an edition in English this month please!xx]]></description>
      <category>English</category>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 05:03:11 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>SAW vet visit does NOT have Mayor's blessing</title>
      <link>http://www.symichat.com/read.php?1,53536,53539#msg-53539</link>
      <author>Will</author>
      <description><![CDATA[The claim that a proposed SAW vet visit (which would be both unsanitary and illegal if it were like ALL their previous vet visits) has the Mayor's blessing has been exposed for the rubbish that it is.  

When an English ex-pat woman approached the Mayor and asked him about helping with a vet visit, the Mayor has told the island's newspaper Symi News that he thought she was...from FAROS!....a natural conclusion given that the Council had recently voted to support FAROS's vet visits to Symi.  The Mayor is a busy man and has too much to deal with to bother with silly groups of mischievous ex-pats playing their silly games.

I do hope that Melanie of SAW will be removing the defamatory statement on her website that states that the Mayor of Symi would support any of SAW's illegal activities.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:24:38 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Accomodation Christmas</title>
      <link>http://www.symichat.com/read.php?1,53537,53538#msg-53538</link>
      <author>Alan</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hi,
&amp;nbsp;
[url=http://www.symigreece.com/symimap_en.htm]Chorio Accommodation Map[/url]
&amp;nbsp;
[url=http://www.taxiarchishotel.gr/]Taxiarchis Hotel[/url] may be your best bet, as they were open last time I stayed in winter, but worth checking first.
&amp;nbsp;
Hope that helps.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 02:40:57 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Accomodation Christmas</title>
      <link>http://www.symichat.com/read.php?1,53537,53537#msg-53537</link>
      <author>OzJen</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Does anyone have, or know of aan apartment, house that could be rented from the 15th December to 28th December in the village this Christmas. Accomodate 2 people, with heating etc.]]></description>
      <category>English</category>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:23:42 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>A message to Melanie of &quot;Symi Animal Welfare&quot;</title>
      <link>http://www.symichat.com/read.php?1,53536,53536#msg-53536</link>
      <author>Will</author>
      <description><![CDATA[So SAW want to have another of their vet visits...after all that they and their friends have done to keep FAROS off Symi for two years.

Well, they should save their efforts.  

FAROS is working hard to overcome the legal obstacles put in its way by Symi's English ex-pats and their friends from Somerset, and will be running a LEGAL, LICENSED clinic within the next few months.  SAW will be getting NO help from Symi's elected representatives, as these people will not help SAW commit an illegal act...which operating an unlicensed vet clinic would be.

ANY vet (English, Greek or otherwise) that comes to Symi and operates in unsanitary, illegal conditions WILL BE PROSECUTED.  I shall take it upon myself personally to see that this happens, no matter what the cost....and I will also pursue those on Symi who have aided him/her.  Symi will never again be subjected to the gutter level of veterinary &quot;care&quot; that SAW have supplied in the past.

I hope, Melanie Sharp, that you are listening.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:32:22 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Symi island sunrise - time lapse</title>
      <link>http://www.symichat.com/read.php?1,53532,53535#msg-53535</link>
      <author>Simon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Excellent Alan, loved itclapping, the small boat just before the blue star comes in can't seem to make it's mind up and leaves...(wcry)]]></description>
      <category>English</category>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:29:42 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Symi island sunrise - time lapse</title>
      <link>http://www.symichat.com/read.php?1,53532,53534#msg-53534</link>
      <author>Helen Pritty</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I really enjoyed it, thank you clapping]]></description>
      <category>English</category>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:15:36 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Symi island sunrise - time lapse</title>
      <link>http://www.symichat.com/read.php?1,53532,53533#msg-53533</link>
      <author>Lizzykitch</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Lovely!xx]]></description>
      <category>English</category>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 11:21:27 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Symi island sunrise - time lapse</title>
      <link>http://www.symichat.com/read.php?1,53532,53532#msg-53532</link>
      <author>Alan</author>
      <description><![CDATA[
&amp;nbsp;
[url=http://www.firstpost.com/topic/place/greece-greece-symi-island-sunrise-time-lapse-gopro-video-5aYjUsyuLMs-1406-2.html]Video Link[/url]]]></description>
      <category>English</category>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.symichat.com/read.php?1,53532,53532#msg-53532</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 11:18:34 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Symi 1999 - Agia Marina</title>
      <link>http://www.symichat.com/read.php?1,53526,53531#msg-53531</link>
      <author>Alan</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Ah the joys of island life, unique and memorable in equal measure :) 
We used to visit Ag. Marina most days, then it was Ag. Nikolas. Then whilst sitting at Pachos and the last Taxi Boats were coming in, we noticed very hot and persurcuted looking people getting off the boats and so I enquired where they had been, the reply was Nanou! AKA &quot;The Oven&quot;. So we started to visit Nanou, with brilliant deep water, but had little shade and that wind was so hot. We switched to Pedi for cheaper days bewteen taxi boats, but then settled on Nimborio, and been a fan ever since...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2012 10:48:45 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Symi 1999 - Agia Marina</title>
      <link>http://www.symichat.com/read.php?1,53526,53530#msg-53530</link>
      <author>Jay</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I remember the &quot;simple&quot; Agia marina with fondness....but not the basic toilets in high summer!]]></description>
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