Tue 31.Oct.2023
Rhodes, GR
Imagery Paris FR, Sep 2023
Rhodes GR, Oct 2023
Paris, FR
You don't fly direct from SFO to Rhodes. You transfer in Paris or Frankfurt, and again in
Athens.
I soon learned not to do the whole thing in one brutal push. In warm seasons I cadge
a few days in Paris. Even in Winter, I break for a night at an airport hotel.
This year, I pushed my luck with late September in Paris. Miraculously, it was bright and reasonably warm. Just as well - my jacket was still in California. (Oops!)
Rhodes, GR
It is only a matter of time before I will need to replace that jacket here in Rhodes. but this
is not that day - not even at the end of October! (Some Finnish friends have already come here from
there. They plan on staying well into Spring!)
A cheap new jacket will be easy to find here. As in many European countries, cheap clothes
come from "Chinese shops", and there are several big ones in walking distance.
A bigger issue is photographic! My trusty cheap travel camera died in my second week here.
I wear cameras pretty hard, so I get cheap ones, and expect to replace them. Not so easy these days
- stores just don't carry ordinary cameras any more! Omnia mutantur and all that!
I've been working on using my phone camera as a replacement, and some of today's pix are
phone pix, but I haven't really got the hang of it yet.
After some asking around, I found a shopkeeper (in the tourist trap district!)
that offered to find and
order me a replacement camera. After a week, he showed me the specs of what he had found; this week
I should be able to collect it! It probably helps that the shopkeeper (and his wife) remembered
me from previous winters. Stay tuned!
Shop windows are a photographic challenge - the outside is brighter than the inside, so the
reflection drowns out the subject. This is what a polarizing filter is for, but you don't get
those on point-and-shoot travel cameras. So let's just pretend that I wanted artsy reflection
photos.
A funny furrin' spelling of a familiar name - Isabel Allende
Notice that Greek has no single letter for the B-sound. (Beta is the V-sound.) By convention,
the combination mu-pi represents "b".
Similarly, nu-tau represents the D-sound, because Delta is pronounced as a voiced "th".
The sign on the umbrella reads OLD TOWN of Rhodes by night
That is probably meant in jest. The Van Gogh art depicts Arles, France.