Visited Rhodes for 5 days for my friend Joe’s wedding with the wonderful Shelley. We had a great time (it was our first actual holiday in a long time), and were really
happy to see Joe again and get to meet Shelley, but Rhodes is not a place I would visit again. The worst side of Greek tourism has turned a place of great natural,
historical and architectural beauty into a theme park for tourists, storming in by the hundreds off the big cruise ships. The experience is like Disneyland with alcohol.
Also, I never suspected food could be SO BAD, anywhere in Greece. It was ridiculous. On the plus side I got lots of nice pictures and, after driving 400 km in 5 days,
I like to think of Rhodes as the Texas of the Dodecanese. Indeed everything is bigger there:
*** WARNING, EXTREMELY LONG POST ***
@ Prasonisi, in the bottom South part of the island:
back on the highway:
Lindos:
some Lindos black and whites:
the next two are from Kalathos beach:
here are some quick snaps from the wedding:
Here is his tallness, Big Joe Jackson, seconds before getting married, with best man Dave:
Joe, testing my wide angle:
Dave, ducking to get out of the shot :) :
that’s it for wedding snaps, now I need to find the time to sort through 500 wedding photos for the album:) Back to general Rhodes photos:
one of those bloody fish spas that were everywhere:
a cigarette milkshake:
a random bride:
Some long moonlit exposures (loving the shower-head vs stars one):
that’s it for the middle/southern part of the island. For the last couple of days we stayed North in the City of Rhodes:
couldn’t get enough shots of that ice-cream van. The guy was mighty proud of it :)
had a lot of fun shooting street with the d700:
my take on the famous Rhodes deer:
back to the van:
some black and whites from Lindos and the city of Rhodes:
finally, on the return journey from Rhodes to Leros, which took SEVEN and a HALF HOURS…
Symi:
That’s all for now. Shot a couple of films, yet to follow :)
