Sun 27.Dec.2009
Rhodes, Greece
Christmas week has been mostly overcast in Rodhos. Let's see some
pictures from the week before.
![default title defalt alt text](pix/2009/pc210084.jpg)
![default title defalt alt text](pix/2009/pc210098.jpg)
![Crossing a Dig outdoor cafe behind elevated catwalk over ruins](pix/2009/pc210102.jpg)
The Usual Start
The view from my window on a sunny morning. That makes it at least a
week ago right there.
![Harbor Cat "tuxedo" cat luking by stone breakwater](pix/2009/pc210119.jpg)
![Mandhraki Harbor old-ish buildings across yacht harbor](pix/2009/pc210121.jpg)
Down at the yacht harbor, looking out past the cruise ship pier to the
ferry pier.
That ferry out there is Blue Star 2, the boat I expect to
ride to Pireas / Athens in a few weeks.
Blue Star 2 is a hefty enough boat, but it is dwarfed by cruise ships
like Brilliance of the Seas,
which was docked at the cruise ship pier today and ten days ago. Real
floating disneylands, those.
One of many homeless cats at the yacht harbor. The poor critters act
torn between being afraid of strangers and wishing they had a friend.
![Lone Crow Hooded crow silhouetted against sky](pix/2009/pc210125.jpg)
![Take Off Hooded crow flapping past a line of flagpoles](pix/2009/pc210127.jpg)
Hooded crows. They are
everywhere here, even more than seagulls.
![Watch Cat cat napping in doorway of small stone tower.](pix/2009/pc210129.jpg)
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![One White Tree bare white tree in courtyard](pix/2009/pc210156.jpg)
"Seven
stars, seven stones, and one white tree."
The stars have been scarce recent
nights, and you can choose any seven stones you like among the big
mortar balls in the moat. Here is the tree though.
![New Town View tree silhouettes framing white buildings](pix/2009/pc210163.jpg)
![Wide Moat grassy area and arched bridge across a wide spot in the medieval moat](pix/2009/pc210183.jpg)
![Entering Town palm tree by stone arch in stone wall revealing another stone wall with you-are-here](pix/2009/pc210214.jpg)
![YA Sidelighted Palm Tree yet another side-lighted palm tree](pix/2009/pc210218.jpg)
See the arched bridge across the moat in the picture just above? This
is the gate through the wall at the end of it, leading into the old
city. One of three back gates.
The palm tree grows up alongside out of
an
inner section of the moat. Perhaps it is trying to grow tall
enough to see out over the wall.
![Red Flower Bush red flower bush against tan stone wall](pix/2009/pc210234.jpg)
![Dead Mosque Wooden scaffolding propping up shell of former mosque, minaret broken off at roof height](pix/2009/pc210245.jpg)
This bush isn't going to see over anything, but it does get sun when
there is sun to be gotten.
Right across the corner of the square
outside my room is one of the many mosque-skeletons in the old city.
Its former footwashery is the picturesque arched pagoda that features
at the start of this post, (and a number of others I've sent).
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