Sat 06.Oct.2012
Rhodes, Greece
I do not remember why I thought this General Postal Station sign was
interesting, but it is here now, and I am not re-working the page layout on its
account.
I marked my seventh day here last Monday by taking my first load to the self
service laundromat. "Self service" at a Greek laundromat means that you put
your own clothes in the washer, and a paper tag on the outside of the machine
with your name on it.
Then you leave for a few hours. When you come back, your laundry is clean, dry, folded,
and in a plastic bag, to which your paper name tag is now attached.
Laundry folks can have long memories. When I entered, the woman yiasoo!-d
me heartily,
pointed me to a washer, and wrote my name from memory(!) on a paper tag for me,
spelled correctly by the lights of the Greek alphabet. There you see it, attached
to the green plastic laundry bag.
I was touched and impressed. Both!
Some deciduous trees are beginning to lose a few leaves in early October, but
all of the flowering botanicals are still doing their thing exuberantly.
Apparent red peppers at the Thursday street market outside the Red Gate, one of
the crossings of the medieval moat on the landward side of the old city. I do not know
how spicy the peppers are; most such things in Europe turn out be variations on
paprika.
These red bush buds grow right below my window.
Souvenir lights at a stand in a ficus grove between the city wall and Mandraki,
the ancient harbor. By day, the grove is host to a flock of souvenir stands, most
of which will be gone by the middle of next month. Enjoy it while it lasts!
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