Trip 2024: First stop, London!

April Fool's Day in London, first leg of a European excursion.

Cittie of Yorke pub

Sir John Soames House Museum

Courtauld Museum

 

Bloomsbury

Soames House

Monty Python in the British Library

Irony

Bloomsbury

Kings Cross

Ferry from Athens, 2023

 We took the ferry from Athens to Naxos. Stopped briefly at a few other islands to load and offload passengers.

Scylla and Charybdis (just kidding)

Ios

Paros

Santorini

Santorini

Naxos in Color

A few scenes from Naxos Chora, the main town on the island.

The ubiquitous paving stones

The ubiquitous motorbikes

Bougainvillea petals

Before the crowds

The ubiquitous stairway (except painted)

The ubiquitous extra chair

Construction

The ubiquitous cats

 

Naxos in Black and White

Spent a few days on Naxos after a few in Athens (see previous posts). Naxos Chora is a delightful town on a rugged island, with miles of winding lanes between stucco houses.

 

Athens 2023: Greeks

 

Athens 2023: Abstracts

Below: Zoom photo of an apartment window I saw from my own several blocks away, and its distorted reflection of the city.

Below: Deserted building used by the homeless and as a dump.

Below: Subway tracks

Below: Beside the train tracks at Monastiraki. 

Below: Tray of incense varieties at a shop selling religious paraphernalia.

Below: Some camo netting for sale at a flea market stall.

Below: View from the hotel bed.

Below: A verdant wall.

Below: Butcher stall, city market.

 

Athens 2023: Shopfronts

The Flea Market area of Monastiraki is a wonderful place for complicated still-lifes of unnumerable random objects.