Sat 15.Feb.2014
Rhodes, Greek
Still another voice joins the Song of the Oranges as the mandarins and
little clementines fade out with the season. Who knew I
would ever get to be a connoisseur of so many variations on the theme of
oranges. Before Rhodes, there were plain old oranges, which were hard to
peel, navel oranges, which had few or no seeds, and smaller, easy-peeling
mandarins. They were all available year round at the supermarket.
Now they come and go earlier in the season (navel and ordinary), or a month
or more later (clementines, then mandarins). This month, the mandarins are
beyond eating, the clementines are a poor gamble; their voices are fading
out ... and a larger, seedless clementine has joined the fray, ripe in its
prime, and ready to sing its part! They will still be going strong when I
leave the island in hmm... less than two weeks.
I was raised on the Walz of the Flowers; I never imagined the Chorus
of the Oranges.
It's Signspotting Time
The label on the page says "very difficult", but even so, those two adjacent
nines are a bit extreme.
I'm not touching a straight line like Blow Bar, dry or not. Make
your own wiseacre interpretation.
"oy" is pronounced "u" in Greek spelling. So what might a Kuckos be?
I'll betcha the clock is a hint!
Furrin spellings, real and less so.
English in Greek clothing. Neither "cafeteria" nor
"reflection" are Greek words.
Cheese steak really is spelled this way in Greek!
Not a native word, of course, not least because there is no such sound in
the language as "ch" - the closest they can say to it is "ts". It is a
loan word for fast food for foreigners. Personally, I think they do gyros
better. Did you really come all the way to Rhodes for Philadelphia fast
food?
A couple of entertainment posters. Betch there is a movie star named Jeffrey
Ross.
Checkov!
Nuff said!
Outside a garage driveway.
On a trash container near the Thursday market.
Fennel.
Nothing funny here, just a new word that I had to look up.
Absurd? Surreal? Neither of these streets is appropriate for cars. Motos
don't care about No Left Turn. The back side of the sign says "No
Entry", which equally meaningless in context.
Furrin Languages
I get the impression there is a strong, if seasonal, Finnish presence up
in the tourist bar district.
Finnish bar, or something to that effect. I know whom to ask for a
real interpretation, but I don't know how to get in touch with her from
Rhodes.
The other scandinavians get their €0,02 worth too.
NORWEGIAN BAR
Welcome to the first and authentic Norwegian bar in Rhodos since 1976!
Mi gato es su gato?