Sun 01.Jan.2017
Various, 2016
The Days Between are here, between Christmas and New Years Day. The old year is effectively past,
the new one not yet begun.
I am going to show some photos between. Ones that got passed over in the course of this year's
postings.
Sevilla, Spain
Plaza de la Encarnacion
Design your carcasa
From the look of the shop, I think carcasa means mobile phone case.
A shop for Japanese comics and accoutrements.
Barcelona, Spain
The yacht harbor at the foot of the Ramblas Boulevard.
I think I could keep myself occupied in Barcelona for way more than a couple of days, but a
short stay has its benefits. For instance, I could afford the same snazzy hotel that my sis was staying in
when we met up there.
Loket, Czechia
My favorite tiny fairy-tale town in the forests of western Bohemia. They don't come more
picturesque than this, and not much more laid back, either. A week here is a treat; two
weeks risks stir-craziness.
Not a pushmi-pullyu, despite apprerances, this is one of a dozen or so Cameroon goats
that live on the steep hillside under Loket castle.
Europeans are going to wonder what the big deal is about this sign. For a Californian, 1352
is historically impressive. For perspective, the city of San Francisco was founded in 1776.
We will see more of Loket next post. I want to leave tonight with a message from Valencia, Spain.
An inlaid sign in North Station. Definitely Greek. I took it for
Bon Voyage at the time, but the spelling and grammatical endings are slightly wrong for that.
I just asked a Greek friend; the sign says Well traveled. In Spain, in Greek!
A second Greek friend says that the language of this sign is the now-unused variant of Greek known
Catharevousa ("Purified"). That variant enjoyed some support in the mid twentieth century, but
few people ever really spoke it.
A lovely sign, nontheless!
Well, the Days Between have run out before I even got this posted. It is now a couple of hours into
2017 here in Rhodes.
I still have another page or two of Pictures Between that I want to get up,
and some Rhodes shots are already demanding attention as well.
Happy New Year to all!