Experience Greece On Line (Video + Stills)
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From: IntrepidBerkeleyExplorer on 5 Jul 2010 19:48 My film "I Follow Apollo� presents the highlights of Greece, including Athens, Olympia, Meteora, Sparta, the Byzantine Empire, and a cruise to the islands of Mykanos, Santorini, Crete, & Rhodes, plus Ephesus in Turkey. The video can be seen on the web, if you have a high speed internet connection. This is a free, non-commercial, streaming video on the Windows Media Player. No ads and no strings attached. I sell absolutely nothing. My video site is: http://intrepidberkeleyexplorer.com/Video.html With any modem you can view a gallery of still pictures from my trip to Greece at: http://intrepidberkeleyexplorer.com/Page12.html There are over 30 of my other amateur travel videos on-line including trips to China, Russia, Antarctica, Italy, the UK, Australia, Hawaii, Peru, Mayan pyramids, and Turkey; see whales, penguins, or polar bears The planet is yours, including my Home Page giant galaxy of still pictures at: http://intrepidberkeleyexplorer.com/ The Intrepid Berkeley Explorer +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: GreAAcPwidemidde2.jpg | |Download: http://www.travelbanter.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=624| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- IntrepidBerkeleyExplorer
From: BP killed my turtle on 6 Jul 2010 06:03 On Jul 6, 11:29 am, Magda <pikroda...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 23:48:29 +0000, in rec.travel.europe, IntrepidBerkeleyExplorer > <IntrepidBerkeleyExplorer.6786...(a)travelbanter.com> arranged some electrons, so they > looked like this: > > ... > ... My film "I Follow Apollo presents the highlights of Greece, including > ... Athens, Olympia, Meteora, Sparta, the Byzantine Empire, and a cruise to > ... the islands of Mykanos, Santorini, Crete, & Rhodes, plus Ephesus in > ... Turkey. > > Where in hell is "Mykanos"? > > ===== > It sounds much better in French, but then, everything does. they meant Mykanus....
From: IntrepidBerkeleyExplorer on 6 Jul 2010 11:38 'Magda[_34_ Wrote: > ;1009125']On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 23:48:29 +0000, in rec.travel.europe, > IntrepidBerkeleyExplorer > IntrepidBerkeleyExplorer.6786598(a)travelbanter.com arranged some > electrons, so they > looked like this: > > ... > ... My film "I Follow Apollo� presents the highlights of Greece, > including > ... Athens, Olympia, Meteora, Sparta, the Byzantine Empire, and a > cruise to > ... the islands of Mykanos, Santorini, Crete, & Rhodes, plus Ephesus > in > ... Turkey. > > Where in hell is "Mykanos"? > > I tend to make both spelling and pronounciation mistakes. This famous > Greek > island in the Aegean Sea should be written as "Mikonos" or "Mykonos". > It's best known for attractive old windmills and white paint on most > buildings. I'm attaching a picture. > > Sorry for the spelling error, which I have corrected. > > Dave +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: GreeceMykanos.jpg | |Download: http://www.travelbanter.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=625| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- IntrepidBerkeleyExplorer
From: James Silverton on 6 Jul 2010 13:45 IntrepidBerkeleyExplorer wrote on Tue, 6 Jul 2010 15:38:27 +0000: > 'Magda[_34_ Wrote: >> ;1009125']On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 23:48:29 +0000, in rec.travel.europe, >> IntrepidBerkeleyExplorer >> IntrepidBerkeleyExplorer.6786598(a)travelbanter.com arranged >> some> electrons, so they looked like this: >> >> ... >> ... My film "I Follow Apollo� presents the highlights of >> Greece,> including ... Athens, Olympia, Meteora, Sparta, the >> Byzantine Empire, and a> cruise to ... the islands of >> Mykanos, Santorini, Crete, & Rhodes, plus Ephesus> in ... >> Turkey. >> >> Where in hell is "Mykanos"? >> >> I tend to make both spelling and pronounciation mistakes. >> This famous> Greek island in the Aegean Sea should be written >> as "Mikonos" or "Mykonos". > It's best known for attractive >> old windmills and white paint on most> buildings. I'm >> attaching a picture. >> >> Sorry for the spelling error, which I have corrected. >> >> Dave+-------------------------------------------------------+ Since the classical name for Mykonos was Mycenae, which is well established in English use, I don't think apologies are necessary. -- James Silverton Potomac, Maryland Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not
From: Mike Lane on 6 Jul 2010 15:55
James Silverton wrote on Jul 6, 2010: > Since the classical name for Mykonos was Mycenae, which is well > established Are you sure about that? Most sources say that Mykonos was originally named after Mykons - the grandson of Apollo -- Mike Lane UK North Yorkshire mike_lane at mac dot com |