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[swan_tower]

kniedzw has been posting honeymoon pictures to Flickr, so I shall, too. These are my most interesting or artistic shots from Rome, Delos, Mykonos, Rhodes, Santorini, Istanbul, Ephesus, and Athens; the Pompeii pictures are on his camera, mine having gone belly up the night after Athens.

You will notice some duplication between his set and mine; we had a habit of taking extremely similar shots. Which isn't a bad thing: sometimes one or the other of us got a better angle or frame on it.

Special to Lymond folks: there's a picture of the Topkapi Palace harem.

Comments

[akashiver.livejournal.com]

Oooh! You got to see the mask of Agamemnon.

[kniedzw.livejournal.com]

Yep. It's pretty much front-and-center in the Athens National Archaeological Museum's Bronze Age collection. Right inside after you get a ticket.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

I've been dying to since 2002.

[kendokamel.livejournal.com]

All I can say is, wow!

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[unforth.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing, and for going to the trouble of labeling it all. :) Awesome stuff!

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

I'm not obsessive enough to geolocate them, though -- I did that with last year's London pics, and it was a pain.

[scottakennedy.livejournal.com]

Thanks thanks thanks for the Topkapi Palace harem pic.
*inner Lymond addict does happy dance*

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

<g> Yer welcome.

[strangerian.livejournal.com]

Ooom. Um. The Topkapi Palace harem (although I am please and delighted to have the visual reference, having journeyed there with Phillippa numerous times), looks to me remarkably, yeah verily, like a Methodist church. The only differences are (a) the barely perceptible lack of a cross on the top; (b) the very conspicuous lack of a signboard announcing This Week's Sermon Topic and worship times, and (c) the hints of minarets peeking over it in the background. Otherwise, it has that New England Gothic look, sanctuary in front and meeting hall plus offices in back, absolutely pat.

I don't really know what to make of that.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

<rofl>

It looks less Methodist-y in person, or in better lighting, where you can see the entrance that's shadowed in that photo. But I do see your point.