Sun 18.Nov.2018
Rhodes, Greece
Live Greek music tonight, and the courtyard is packed here at Home Sweet Pub.
I love that about this place. Even in Winter, people turn out for live music.
They don't seem picky about what kind of music, as long as live people are
playing it.
Tonight's fare is the style called "rebetika",
sometimes
characterized as "Greek blues". To local people, this is soul music.
To foreigners it can sound whiny. Me, I take it as I do flamenco in Andalusia.
I love it for reminding me where I am, even when my furriner's ear gets its fill
of actually listening.
Winter she's-a here. Mostly rain. Cold, but not like it will be in January.
Rain yesterday, grey overcast today, rain forecast for the next three days.
While California
goes up in flames. I wish I could send this stuff there. We need it, but not as
immediately as the folks back home.
Ha! My Finnish friend just showed up, sweaty from walking. When I gripe
about the cold, he beefs up my sense of perspective.
Dark grey afternoons do not produce many pictures, so tonight's are
from a couple of weeks ago.
Evening shopping, back in the season.
Shopping? Might be time for ...
Sign Spotting
Finns!
Daily Special Meat & Onions
Norwegians!
Do you like the first and best Norwegian bar ...
... or the original Norwegian bar?
You can try them both - they are neighbors,
across the street from those Finnish daily specials.
Birds fishing.
I wondered what this little boat was towing. Then I saw the flock of birds wheeling
around the cargo. That is a fishing boat; the cargo is a net full of fish, and birds
are raiding the larder, so to speak.
This cat found his way up there.
I hope he can find his way down.
Archeologists say that this temple has been under construction since the second
century B.C. This part of the world is famous for unfinished construction projects. :)
The St George Bastion
Formerly the St George Gate. Before the last siege by the Turks, the Grand Master decided
that the city was vulnerable because it had too many gates. So the bridge across the moat
at this point was demolished, and a full-tilt bastion built in its place.
The moat was re-routed outward around the new bastion.
Today, the bastion is sealed off from the old city, but you can look down into it
from the walkway on top of the old city wall.
Our old friends ...
The San Francisco Gate ...
... and St Fanourios Street.
That's all Folks!