Sun 21.Oct.2012
Rhodes, Greece
In an effort to lose some weight, I've been taking an actual excercise
walk every day, as opposed to just getting out and strolling around. I choose
routes that leave me plenty of room to stroll back to home base, so the
photographic difference is not that obvious.
That said, here is today's stroll around town. Today's posting, that is;
it did not all happen today.
Photos assembled last night. Words composed even as I type (duh), over a dinner of
octopus salad, which looks a lot like a Greek salad, with fresh octopus instead of feta
cheese. And plenty of garlic.
A pigeon goes face-to-face with Eternal Praise And Honor - to the fighters who
died liberating the Dodecnanese Islands from the Nazis in the early 1940's.
In these first six pictures, we have strolled the length of Mandraki Harbor, from
north to south.
The Old City is ahead of us, but we are not there just yet.
This restaurant complex in the new town near the D'Amboise Gate looks like something
the Italians would have built when they were here in the 1930's. Perhaps they did.
All right, botany people: what is the name of this large flamboyant flower, and / or
the tree that bears it?
Home neighborhood in the old city: the next square over, Akousilaou,
which sounds to me like a Hawaiian song we learned as school kids.
Somebody has painted a house here a bright sky blue that looks more like the Cyclades
islands than the earth tones of the Dodecanese. No complaints here.
You are not going to get across Rhodes old town without seeing a few cats.
The late afternoon breeze has been getting stiffer and cooler the past days.
It is particularly noticeable in the moat, where the pampas grass gives sharply
visible form to the wind.
What would a stroll around town be without a pass through the medieval moat?
It would not be this page of photos, at any rate.
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