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Vecchio 16-09-2014, 12.20.46
Martin
 
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Predefinito Re: Santorini (Greece) pics, June 2014

On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 10:48:11 +0200, Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr>
wrote:
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>On 2014-09-14 06:56:21 +0000, Martin said:
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>> On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 15:49:01 +0200, Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr>
>> wrote:
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>>> On 2014-09-09 07:56:28 +0000, Martin said:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 13:05:30 +0100, Jack Campin <bogus@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Simon Laub wrote:
>>>>>> Have been practising my camera swinging techniques in Santorini,
>>>>>> Greece this summer.
>>>>>> So, below you will find some snaps from the wonders of
>>>>>> Santorini:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [url]http://simonlaub.net/Fortunecity/Santorini2014/index.html[/url]
>>>>>
>>>>> Yikes. And I thought Lindos in Rhodes was a tourist fortress.
>>>>> That place looks more like a mall than a town. Looks like there
>>>>> might be some good walks away from the town though.
>>>>>
>>>>> Are all the Asian couples having a Moonie mass wedding?
>>>>
>>>> LOL
>>>> Some photos could be from a disaster movie.
>>>> It was overcrowded when a cruise ship was there 30 years ago, Gawd knows what
>>>> it is like with half a dozen much larger cruise ships there.
>>>
>>> Good thing I went in 1965, when it wasn't like that at all.[/color]
>>
>> I regret very much not going in the 1960s.[/color]
>
>When I went to Greece in 1965 for a trip of five or six weeks I was the
>only one of five of us who thought to equip himself with a guidebook
>(Fodor's, if memory serves). As a result we mostly went to places that
>I thought would be worth visiting -- Mt Athos, Mykonos, Rhodes,
>Santorini, Crete, Delphi. One of us (not me, but I read it) bought a
>copy of Fanny Hill in Santorini, at a time it was impossible to buy in
>England without going to rather unsavoury shops in London.[/color]

It's surprising how many people don't buy guide books and maps before going on
holiday. Buying good maps of Greece used to be difficult.
--

Martin in Zuid Holland



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