Just having fun--miscellaneous photos

Being an architect, my husband takes mainly photographs of buildings--over 700 this trip. A few slip-ups--here are some of people and animals.

With Dottie on Mars Hill

Resisting in one of the approved shopping sites

Gene, also an architect, inspecting the softness and quality of Turkish rugs, while the rest of bus 5 boldly looks on

Clothing contrasts in Turkey, the traditional woman

and the modern teen-agers
Our neighbors and fellow members of UALC on the Sea of Galilee

Mentors and friends for over 30 years

At the Church of All Nations

At the foot of a pyramind, early for the peace demonstration

Always, always listen to your tour guide. Don't even make eye contact. This guy stole 50 euro from us.

Joyce and I window shopping in Cairo before the stores opened. The painted sign probably says SALE!

Cairo Kitties waiting for lunch. I think there were 7 or 8 in that bin.

Some in our group used the hotel pool; some just used it for drinks.

Museums in Greece and Turkey

We visited a museum in Corinth, Greece on Friday and one in Turkey on Monday. The antiquities and ruins in both countries are so rich and so layered, a quick tour can't do them justice. The museum in Corinth "contains collections of prehistoric finds, various items ranging from the Geometric to the Hellenistic period, Roman and Byzantine finds, excavation finds from the Asklepieion of Corinth, and a collection of sculptures and inscriptions." I have to admit, after awhile, I can't tell a Roman statue from a Greek statue from an Egyptian statue. And as much as I admire the artistic talent in the mosaics, I wonder about the unnamed thousands who must have toiled over them, regardless of the culture. In Corinth I mainly remember it started to rain and I went in the museum to get warm.




They didn't want us to use flash in the Corinth museum, so these were our two best.



Our pastor, Paul Ulring, in the Turkish Archeological Museum admiring a mosaic.

These cats were not strays.



You need to keep your head when traveling.

The Acropolis, Mars Hill, and the Parthenon

Where Paul preached the good news about Jesus and the resurrection. "The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. . ." (Acts 17)

Below the Acropolis is a theater built in 161 AD and still used today for concerts, from classical to rock

Carytid Porch of the Erechtheion. One was removed and is at the British Museum. What we see here are exact replicas of the originals

The Parthenon, the most famous surviving building of ancient Greece, probably 2500 years old

The happy architect who never dreamed he would see the Parthenon!

Explanation of the restoration

Kalos Orisate--Welcome

We docked at Piraeus, near Athens and the main harbor of Greece. We arrived on Thursday and Friday morning boarded our buses for The Acropolis, Mars Hill (where Paul delivered a speech about "the unknown God"), Erechtheion Temple, and the Parthenon, one of the most famous buildings in the world.

Our ship, the MV Cristal

Relaxing before a busy schedule of touring
Elegant night with Rod and Judi