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The Selene on Nimborio Bay, Symi: a whitewashed tower with blue shutters beside a stone wing, above a dry-stone sea wall and bare mountainside.|Photo ©️ Will Slater

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The double-height living room at The Selene, Symi: a white panelled gallery screened with lattice above, a wicker dome lamp, rush-seated chairs, a reclaimed plank table and a red kilim below. A deep-set arched window open to the sea in a whitewashed room at The Selene, a rush-seated wooden chair beside it and a book left on the sill. A twin bedroom lined in white tongue-and-groove at The Selene, Symi, two iron beds flanking a dark painted chest beneath framed crocus and cyclamen prints, a blue and yellow floral rug underfoot. A looped iron bedstead beneath an arched window with blue shutters at The Selene, framing Nimborio Bay and the bare hills of Symi, a striped curtain and woven basket to one side. A quiet bedroom at The Selene, Symi, the bed set against pale blue timber panelling with a brass wall lamp, white linen and a striped cushion beside a deep window reveal. A red-painted iron four-poster seen through a panelled door at The Selene, Symi, a blue painted side table and linen-shaded lamp beside the bed under a pale blue boarded ceiling. A whitewashed terrace at The Selene with a cushioned bench in blue and olive stripes, blue shutters, the tower's timber balcony above and the waterfront of Nimborio across the bay. A long table on the terrace at The Selene, Symi, set with green-striped linen, sage ceramics, marble wine coolers and wirework chairs, the bay and hills softly beyond. The stone wing of The Selene, Symi, with arched windows and rust-red shutters above a whitewashed storey of blue-shuttered doors, an open timber staircase rising to the stone arcade. A gnarled old tree rising from a stone-ringed bed on a paved terrace at The Selene, Symi, the dining table set beneath the pergola behind it and dry-stone walls beyond. The whitewashed tower of The Selene with blue shutters and a timber balcony, seen through soft-focus olive branches against a clear Symi sky. A pale stone path through white daisies in the terraced garden at The Selene, Symi, leading to a sage-green bench with blue cushions against a dry-stone wall under a pine.

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