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Patmos
Olympia and Delphi
Mycenae
Mycenae and Agamemnon’s tomb, the Beehive Tomb. My camera body chose this moment to self destruct, reducing me to using a point and shoot until we returned to Athens, where my wife compelled me to buy a new body. Not that I was complaining.
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Yours truly standing in front of an antique windmill clutching his new camera body, which cost him considerably more than it was worth before the 23% tax which the EU refused to refund despite strenuous protests:
Agamemnon’s tomb:
Mycenae:
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Athens
While we were in Greece there was a one day strike which disrupted very little – for us, at least – and we saw some of the demonstrations in Athens; no violence, though. The locals we spoke to were sympathetic to the demonstrators but had no use for the rioters who, they were convinced, were imported professional agitators.
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The Acropolis
Mars Hill where St. Paul preached:
Street vendor:
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The Monasteries of Metéora, Greece
These six Greek Orthodox monasteries, built between the 14th and 16th centuries, are located at Metéora and most are perched on high cliffs accessible by staircases cut into the rock and through a basket or net that is lowered by a rope from the top. Supplies are still hoisted up this way and, at one time, the monks were too.
The narthex of each, where unbaptized worshippers had to wait, is decorated with scenes of gruesome torture that early Christians had to endure: dismemberment, disembowelling, flaying and similar disincentives to holding fast to Christianity. The idea was to impress on new or prospective converts the sacrifices made by their forebears. Not what we would think of today as a warmly welcoming seeker friendly experience – but it worked, apparently.
To my intense annoyance, my DSLR body chose the second day of our excursion to self-destruct, so these photos are taken with a very limited point and shoot camera. Such was my frustration that my wife persuaded me to buy a replacement body when we returned to Athens.
