Sun 04.Nov.2012
Rhodes, Greece
To start out another pretty nice fall day in Rhodes, here are a couple of
familiar churches with slightly odd names.
St Pandeleimonos
Basilica of the Virgin of the Burgh
There is no harm in showing a couple more colorful tourist shops.
They will be shuttered up in another month or so.
Hmm... I didn't even notice all of those people on the upper decks of today's
humongous cruise ship! Some were probably waving. If I had been paying attention,
I would probably have waved back.
Today's ripples
from the folks and boats at Mandraki, the ancient harbor, now used for yachts,
commercial and otherwise.
Today's walk through the moat beneath the Grandmaster's Palace.
I suppose the singular is correct: Grandmaster's,
not Grandmasters'. All of them did live there, but only one at any given time.
googley google... yup - some references spell it as two words, some as one,
but they all use the singular.
The giant tree-strangling zucchini is going strong. I think somebody does keep it
under control, though. A small fence surrounds its roots; something shrinks it back
every year or two. The poor plane tree would have been smothered to invisiblity by
now if the vine were having its own unrestricted way.
Before this bar added the word "cielo" to its sign, I used to joke about it with
my German-speaking friends. Klo is German slang for toilet. The crown could
even be taken to mean that they have a real throne for a klo at the Clo.
I still think that makes more sense. CLO sounds nothing like cielo unless
you pronounce it to rhyme with jell-o, in which case you don't know enough Spanish
to understand it anyway.
My guess: like the tourist bars in Slovakia with Spanish names, this is probably
targeted at British vacationers who used to go to Spain. Other wisecrack interpretations
are welcome.
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