Tue 28.Apr.2015
Rhodes, Greece
The bottom of Mandraki harbor on a clear day.
A cruise ship in the slightly odd livery of a German-based line.
We are scheduled for 39 calls by cruise ships this May. Conspicuous by
their absence are Costa cruise lines, which were regular callers when last
I was here. I do not know the story on that. Something seasonal?
Recep Pasha's poor old crumbling mosque, on the square outside my window,
is getting attention. I haven't seen actual work going on on the mosque,
but I have heard occasional banging on the cube of scaffolding that now
surrounds it. Inside the scaffolding, some work obviously has been done
before I arrived, but I haven't caught anybody in the act of doing it.
We shall see what state it is in when I return here in the Fall.
Actually, I can no longer see the mosque, even the dome, from my window.
The trees, especially the biggus ficus, have grown enough new foliage to
hide it completely . So it goes!
Bar Wars
Welcome to the original Norwegian bar.
Welcome to the first and genuine Norwegian bar.
They are next door to each other, for easy comparing.
A bi-lingual menu.
I like the Greek spelling of BURGERS.
Vanilla halvah,
of course!
One of three passages from the moat into the old city. There is one such
passage near each of the gates on the landward side of the city.
At the aptly-named Windy Beach, on the west side of the tip of the island.
There are other Greek islands in that general direction, but the mountains you
see are the Bodrum Peninsula on the mainland of Turkey.