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Venice, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, & Egypt album cover, 113 photos.
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Brief travels in Europe. On December 25, 1993 I boarded a plane with a one way ticket to London. I quickly skipped eastward: London (3 nights), Amsterdam (3 nights), Prague (4), Budapest (13), Venice (2), into Greece (36) ...
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The camera of my first trip: Vivitar EF 35 for about $20. A 35mm box with no flash (it didn't work).
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In the beginning ... arriving 11pm in Venice I refused to pay $20 for a hostel bed, found a market square and fashioned a wind-barrier out of plywood to sleep in the street.
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Canal-streets of Venice
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Boy surrounded by pigeons in Piazza San Marco, with St Mark's Basilica in the background, Venice
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Fishing in the waters of Venice
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Statue in Budapest
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From Brindisi, Italy I took a ferry to Patras, a city of southern Greece
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The youth hostel of Patras
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The two Jackies. The smaller woman, Jacqueline, was an American follower of the Dalai Lama. She was traveling Europe to collect funds to build a monastery in Southern France for Tibetan Nuns.
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The setting of Olympia -- where the Olympic Games were held in classical times
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Ruins of Olympia. In honor of god Zeus 776 BC is said to the date of the first Olympic games. In 393 AD the games ceased, as Christian emperor Theodosius issued a ban on all pagan cults and practices.
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Ruins of Olympia
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Home for a night, outside the town of Filiatra. From Olympia I took the train to Kiparrissia, bought some food and a flashlight, and began walking rural Greece.
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Incoming storm as I walk the beach towards the town of Marathopoli. To escape the rain I slept in someone's garage.
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My lunch view, over the town and harbor of Pilos
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The landscape ahead as I approach the town of Kardamili (bottom right)
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Descending into Neon Itilo and old Areopolis port
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Nearing the town of Vathia, southern extreme of Peloponnesse
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Vathia, by the sea, at last
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When I started walking Peloponnesse my goal was to reach here, the town of Vathia, and stay an indefinite amount of time (months) studying various texts.
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Landscape from a hillside by town of Platsa
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The view between towns Lagios and Kotronas
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One of hundreds of little roadside shrines in Greece (for people who have died in driving accidents)
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Pantanassa's monastery. The ruins of Mystras date back to the early 1200s, located a few kms outside the city of Sparta.
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Take 1 @ the Acropolis
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Laughing it up in front of the Parthenon. The most famous of the Acropolis buildings, constructed between 447-432 BC in honor of Goddess Athena.
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Crazy Californian Christoper, an airline steward in Athens for a couple days
