Wed 09.Nov.2011
Rhodes, Greece
The second of two pages from a sunny few days in the old city.
The Waxing Moon
How do languages like Latin and Slovak manage without articles? Without a
and the, how do they distinguish between the waxing moon
and waxing the moon?
It would be annoying to discover you had gone and bought a
gallon of moon wax because of a purely verbal misunderstanding.
Late Afternoon
Which is coming ever earlier, especially since the "fall back" to standard time
last month. Europe seems to do the time change a week before the U.S.
Another Day
And so we leave the old city through the Eleftherias (Liberty) Gate.
A friendly old ice cream vendor stations his wagon here. When I first saw him
this year, he asked where and how I had been since last year. Unlike some shops
in town, he makes his own ice cream - Italian style! Need I say I am a
regular customer?
Contents Copyright 2012 Jeff Bulf