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Athens, some time ago

I took these back when we still had a lab that developed slide film in Nicosia, so it was many years ago. (Five? More? Time goes by so fast when you live so close to a black hole.)

I barely remember the trip. The whole slide film is a series of shots from the plane. The takeoff at (the old) Larnaca Airport, pictures of the coast, and clouds and sunshine from the plane window, then landing at Eleftherios Venizelos in Athens.

Then there are these six shots from the Parthenon at dusk.

These days whenever I hear something about Greece it’s all sad. The country, it seems, is under attack. Bankers and corporate barbarians at the gates. Nazis in government. And too many people either supporting or tolerating evil. (Any number supporting Nazis is too many.) Just writing a sentence with the word ‘Nazis’ in present tense boggles my mind. Have we gone back in time? Are we living in a Philip K. Dick novel?

So now I’m going back to looking at my pretty slides.

The Parthenon is 2,450 years old.

It’s my favorite place in Athens.

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November 10, 2012

finally, fall

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September 29, 2012

Views from a Castle

It feels weird that it’s fall and I am in Cyprus and not away in school or rushing off to hand in a thesis.

At the same time September and October are perfect months to wander around the island, as the immense summer heat subsides and the tourists return to their wintery homelands.

There are so many places I haven’t even seen yet, or that I’d like to visit again.

These are some old pictures, taken with a medium format Mamiya and color slide film (remember those) from a previous trip to the castle of Kolossi.

Cyprus is full of treasures and nice locations. All you have to do to find them is go off your usual main city streets and just look around. And wander.

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April 13, 2012

Out Writing…

…and thinking of flying. Two of my favorite things.

So while I’m out you can gaze at some slides taken from a plane.

Because looking at pictures of my desk and papers would be pretty boring.

[I took these on a flight out of the old Larnaca airport. The building might have sucked, but taking off and landing always had a good view. As does the new airport.]