Tue 21.Oct.2025
Rhodes GR
Tonight's theme is Rhodes pictures are piling up fast, so let's show a bunch (without
over-thinking what they have to do with each other.)
This is Shoulder Season on a major Greek island.
The Museum of Archaeology
The two transit hubs at Mandraki.
Waiting for the bus for the West coast of the island, toward the airport.
Busses for the East coast leave from the other end of the block, with a different bus
company(!).
Waiting for a cab at the taxi station. (The drivers must be jumping - usually I see a dozen
or more waiting for fares.)
The maze of tourist shops inside the medieval wall at the Marine Gate, by the tourist harbor.
A pop-up craft stand.
One of the few harborside cafes that will remain open the whole Winter. A welcome spot on a
rainy day in February!
These gates in the medieval city wall go back to the crusader era.
D'Amboise Gate, under the Grandmasters' Palace.
Virgin Gate, named for the nearby Church of the Virgin of the Burgh.
The church is a picturesque ruin, a popular photo-op for visitors, and the site of this
year's Rhodes Jazz Festival.
Sez Rhodespedia: The name "Burgh" comes from the bourgeois (as opposed to Knights) who
inhabited this part of the town.
The next few pictures speak for themselves. Use your built-in image processing.
The words will be back when their turn comes.
The last light of the Sun on a street artist.
The light of lamps on a restaurant on my square.
These guys depend on the tourist trade; they'll be
closed for the Winter by this time next month.
(Home Sweet Pub, by contrast, has
a local following of regulars; they'll be open through the Winter, unless the honcho takes a
well-earned break in December.)