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Many churches have a basic shape, making it hard to tell a photo of a
small chapel from a near-cathedral. The one at left here is a very
small chapel near my room.
At right is a disused-looking church in the old Frankish fortress on a
bluff near the ferry dock.
Even in devout Greece, not every public place is a church. Parikia, the capital
of Paros, has several prominent plazas. The big one at the
port has a playground and outdoor cafes.
The March weather here this week has been mostly blustery, always
cold, and sometimes thunder, lightning and pouring rain.
All of this has
made for dramatic vistas toward the neighboring islands.
Hey Rocky! Watch me make the mountain behind this church vanish!
The sixth-century Church of a Hundred Doors is
Parikia's major landmark building.
Otherwise, sightseeing here mostly means getting lost in the delightful
maze of the old town, or getting out of town to explore the rest of the
island, or neighboring Andiparos
just off shore. Weather didn't support the former, but I did
take a day trip by bus/ferry to Andiparos. Nothing wrong with
it, but nothing worth photographing in flat overcast light.
I had most of an hour to wait for the return bus, after the return ferry crossing back
from Andiparos. The cloud cover began to break up, and the very minimal dock town of
Pounda was easily explorable in the time available.
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