Google Map of Greece 2008

Another great idea from Byrne. She Suggested I make a Google map chronicling the travels of Rhino with assorted landmarks that were visited. Thanks Byrne!
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Rh-Iphone

My new Rh-Iphone is really cool! I can keep in contact with friends, check the weather, make To-Do lists, browse the Internet and play music. I don't usually do it in the dark though.

On top of Acropolis...

Up until this point I had gone relatively unobserved in Greece. Taking my picture here and there. When I posed for this photo there must have been a hundred people watching me as I balanced on the cool marble underneath a noon sun. Awkward? It was like they had never seen a Rhino before!

According to Wikipedia, The Erechtheon was the last of the major acropolis structures to have been built. It was begun during the Peace of Nikias in the Peloponnesian War but was not completed until 408 BCE--roughly five years before Athens's defeat. While the Parthenon played largely a civic role, in festivals and as a treasury for Athens' Delian League, the Erechtheon had greater religious significance. It had to be built on several levels to accommodate the sloping terrain and because it was designed to enclose a number of sacred sites. In addition to the contest between Athena and Poseidon, for example, the site is associated with the tomb of Erechtheus, the legendary first king of Athens. Erechtheus was associated with both Athena and Poseidon, and the Erechtheon seems to be a double temple, dedicated to both gods.

Rhino Nietzsche

In so far as the word “knowledge” has any meaning, the world is knowable; but it is interpretable otherwise, it has no meaning behind it, but countless meanings.—“Perspectivism.”

Coke in Kalambaca

Even Rhino's get thirsty. What a beautiful day.

Kalambaca

Here I am in Kalambaca visiting the Monasteries of Meteora.
The landscape is very beautiful with soaring cliffs and interesting byzantine monasteries constructed on top. I almost got dizzy!

Athens

I woke up this morning in Athens. Here are the roof tops of the capital of Greece. The trash men were on strike, so garbage was piling up in the streets...eewww. The cab drivers suck...I drove to the same place, same distance four times. Each time was more expensive? C'mon!

But I still had a good time!