2001. June 23. - The Cruise - Rhodos

Arriving at Rhodos.	This tugboat pulled us in.	Definitely not a passanger port.	Ships, Venetian fortress, containers.	Entrance to the Palace of the Grand Masters.	On the bridge towards the palace.	Classic medeival palace.	Classic again.
This is awesome.	Looking at the Street of the Knights.	The majestic palace.	Inside the palace.	Ancient Roman mosaics cover the floors.	Hardly anything covers the walls, though.	Looking thru a window.	That small window is made of alabaster.
The Laocoön complex - only a copy, the original is in Vatican City.	Medusa in mosaic.	Nice office!	A big meeting room for the European cultural ministers.	Zeus hijacking Europa - very nice mosaic!	A gift of the Maltese Knights.	Even the toilet is extravagant here.	More gifts from the Maltese Knights.
The shield of Rhodos.	The nine muses - in mosaic.	Have a seat!	Jon and Chris in the courtyard.	More of the courtyard.	The Street of the Knights, which is where they used to live.	Outside Rhodos in a small town a potter is forming a vase.	Vase done and split in half.
This woman was painting this vase so fast we couldn't believe it!	And this girl was coloring them nicely.	Of course, you could also buy them in this shop.	The church at Moni Filerimou, southwest of Rhodes.	More of the church.	Ruins of an ancient acropolis at the same place.	Greek orthodox baptism pit.	Inside the church.
Icons inside the church.	More icons.	Inside the church.	Courtyard of the church.	What a view!	That's the road we came up on.	The less often seen back of the church.	A huge concrete cross near the church.
The view from the cross!	Looking back at the church from the top of the cross.	Looking down, to the right is a military base.	Me on the cross. Weird.	Brenda and Jon on top of the cross. A very small staircase led up to here.	Jon walking back towards the church.	We are near the port again.	Ruins inside the city walls of Rhodes.
The tourist trap inside the city walls.	I am telling you - I am famous! (And admired!)	More of Rhodes.	One of the main entrances thru the city wall.	Boats just outside of it.	Windmills in the distance.	View from the city wall.	There's a topless beach somewhere there...
Looking thru the wall.	Jon laughing his ass off as Karl just took bazillion pictures of the sunbathing topless women below...	Local flora.	A hydrofoil.	Karl posing as the Colossus of Rhodes...	...one foot of which stood originally here...	...and it was standing right across this bay before an earthquake toppled it over.	Are we in Venice or in Rhodes?
Another beach - very popular, it seems.	Of course, it's topless, except this woman decided to take on her shirt just now. Me screaming with joy in the water behind.	More unfortunate shots of a woman not topless any more. Look, I am swimming!	Our ship. You can make out its Greek name, which is the same as its English one.	Our ship again.	Last look at the port of Rhodes.