We didn't do anything worth reporting yesterday. Kim needed a day to recover from our trip on Saturday, so we spent Sunday around the apartment. I'll take the occasion to clear out some photos from the last couple of weeks that I haven't posted.

This naval ship is in the same harbor as the trireme - just down from the yachts.

I took this awful picture from the tram (through the glass, moving) but I wanted to show the Dominos Pizza delivery motor scooters. This is another example of me experiencing differences that are more "big city" experiences than "Greek" experiences. Our pizzas are delivered by car. In Athens, food is delivered by motor scooter with thermal boxes on the back.

This was from our walk through the Glyfada shopping district last week. I had to take a picture of the "Florida Mall." Each of these malls is open-air galleries of shops, but the street has dozens of them. The number of individual shops on this street has to number in the hundreds.

The purpose of this Independence Day (March 25) picture was just to show the extent of the crowds at the parade. I couldn't get an aerial shot so this was my attempt to show people 5 and 6 deep along the parade route. I was really disappointed that the TV networks showed the parade live, but not delayed. I would love to have seen all the stuff I missed. I was reminded of an article I read in grad school about the difference between being at a parade and the mediated reality of watching it on TV.


This is the evzones, the guards in the traditional uniforms, lining up for the parade. Their major task is guarding the tomb of the unknown soldier (changing every hour), but they do other ceremonial events like the parade.

Another picture from our trip to Aegina on Saturday. I liked this because off in the distance you can see one of the many ferries (larger but slower than our hydrofoil).

This beach with the small lighthouse looked very inviting. Of course the air temp was in the 60s, so none of us was jumping in the water.

I took this picture because we don't see a lot of prickly pear trees in Muncie.

Just another island picture.

Antiquities on Aegina. The placard in the foreground is in Greek and German - not English. Mark and Martha said a lot of Germans came to Aegina after WW II. During the war they had occupied the island for a while, but the commandant had a benevolent dictator relationship with the locals.

Did you participate in Earth Hour Saturday at 8:30 p.m.? Kim and I did - no lights on for an hour. The acropolis was dark, but we saw an awful lot of other lights as we went around looking to see if we could detect less light when it hit 8:30.