Fri 21.Nov.2025
Rhodes GR
I just noticed - and I'm boggled. Tonight's photos include almost no
humans! (Or cats!) I generally try to include people in a shot. They make a scene more
interesting.
Somehow I selected a set of pix tonight that look interesting enough without
people - of any species. Let's hope it really works out that way. Here we go!
Afternoon
Evening
Morning coffee.
The door signs on the restrooms at a cafe near the University.
At the San Francisco Gate...
Procession for a dead fridge cabinet.
Crossing the moat,
Suleiman the Magnificent entered the city here, enjoying
more or less this view when his troops finally conquered the city in 1522. He subsequently ordered the gate
sealed off, so that no other conqueror could repeat his feat. The Italians restored and
re-opened the stucture in 1922 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Great Siege.
I had expected that there would be mucho hoopla and commemoration on the 500th
anniversary in 2022. Weirdly, there was not a peep - not so much as a mention of
the event. An almost eerie silence for a no-brainer tourist hypefest. To this day
I don't know why.
(The ousted crusaders re-located, and became the Knights Of Malta.)
Rain puddles can be a nuisance on the cobbled streets, but they make photos
of the ground more interesting.
I looked it up; poinsettias are native to Mexico and Central America. Expats of
the species abound in Rhodes, and I say welcome to them.