Sat 22.Oct.2011
Rhodes, Greece
Our story so far:
We are walking the top of the wall of the old city of Rhodes.
The medieval wall is wider than almost any street in the old city
There are new views of now-familiar sights, like Suleiman's mosque...
... and the medieval moat.
The bridge across the moat at the San Francisco Gate.
I entered the city through this gate when I arrived two weeks ago.
In the center here is the crumbling mosque of Recep Pasha, its circumcised
minaret looking more like a smokestack. Behind that, the alabaster minaret of
Ibrahim Pasha's still-active mosque, and the monster cruise ship of the day.
We are still in the season where an average day can feature more than one of
these floating skyscrapers at a time. Today there were two big ships and some lesser
ones.
We are not down yet; this clutch of trees (cypress?) is growing right up there
on top.
Fallen fruit in somebody's patio.
Some kind of service buildings down in the moat.
Walkers in the moat, under the Red Gate, another back
gate into the city.
The Red Gate
Tunnel between the inner and outer moats
Raised walkway along the inner moat
Entry street to the city proper.
The wall walk ends at the Red Gate. The stairs, conspicuously lacking a handrail,
descend into the street in the picture above.
Noon strikes. The attendant explains
to some would-be walkers that the wall is now closed, and anyway this is the
exit.
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