A Little Bit of Rhodes

Three days in Rhodes for work means seeing almost nothing of what the island can offer! Dammit! Oh well, let's not despair; the weather wasn't on my side, but it was still enough for some meaningful shots. In reality the lens captured almost exclusively the landscape of Lindos: a typical village with a Greek flavour, quite touristy, okay, but well kept and absolutely liveable by day and by night.

It is a maze of little streets that laboriously climb up the mountain slope, little white houses mostly converted into tavernas where you dine on a terrace over the sea, or small shops of local crafts; blessed hands those of the inhabitants, who excel in working terracotta and hand-painted ceramics! The challenge is to climb all the way up the hill where the old town is kept, but as Liga says, "we may have no class but we've got legs and as much breath as you like"! Well, it's worth it, since the view opens onto two small gulfs offering a truly evocative spectacle. Rhodes, a very beautiful city to visit because it's a small walled town closed to traffic, where moreover the various civilisations passing through or settled on the island in times gone by have left a mark of their passage, making the architecture an encyclopaedia of styles.

Faliraki, another well-known tourist resort, I think is less fascinating, but very well suited both to teenagers in the mood for night-time madness and to families who find reassurance in a long sandy beach where children can play in peace. **Honest advice: don't go to Ixia unless you're a lover of constant, insistent wind!** CALIMERA