THE NAKED PHOTO ALBUM - RHODES - SIGNS This page has some pictures of, if you will, Rhodes Signs. Que laughter. Anyhow, I had a smashing (if slightly lonely) time there in August 2002...

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PAUL'S THOUGHT: RHODES, WHERE I ENJOYED
THE SUN, SEA, SAND AND... MYSELF.

Top left: BO Club. I think this conjures all sorts of images. However, even better was a club in Rhodes town I heard about called The G-Spot. I, naturally enough, went looking for it. But I couldn't find it. Thinking about it, I'm not even sure if it was a real place... Bottom left: A somewhat self-evident road sign. In fact, all I can see is corner. Larger versions (up to 1Mb whoppers!) of all these pictures are available on request.

Top middle: ...off a back road onto a rough concrete track which winds it's stupidly steep way upwards. Somewhere near the top of this remote mountain I came across this. Imagination alone suggests the restaurant slipped over the edge of a cliff one stormy night in November, leaving only a broken sign as a mute monument. Bottom middle: One of my favourite signs from Rhodes. You can almost smell this hotels overflowing bins and hear the feral cats going through them.

Top right: The crash barrier in this shot probably saved my life. I don't mean I'm not sure if I'm dead on not - I've tried that test with a mirror and it steamed up. I think this means I'm alive - rather I mean if it hadn't been there when I crashed my scooter I could still be a greasy spot on the valley-floor waiting to be discovered. Bottom right: This sign is for me the very embodiment of the art of understatement. A masterclass, truly. 'There is a nice view' says it all really.

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PAUL'S THOUGHT: MORE FROM RHODES. NO JOKE.

Top left: Wave crash at sunset, taken (as all these Rhodes pictures were) at 6 million pixel resolution with my Fuji FinePix 6900zoom digital camera. Bottom left: An angelic memorial to the war-dead of W.W.II in Rhodes town.

Top middle: The cool soothing water in the Mediterranean midday sun. Makes my feet tingle just looking at it! Bottom middle: The corner of a square in the old-town area of Rhodes town. Is it the most complete medieval city in the world?

Top right: Empty beach at dawn. On my first two days in Rhodes I woke very early, allowing me time to reach the beach before sunrise. Quite a strange experience. Bottom right: The view from a chapel high in the hills at sunset.

Can't get enough of Rhodes?

This 3.1Mb/57s Mpeg video of
me singing on a moped in the
mountains there may cure you!

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PAUL'S THOUGHT: EVEN MORE FROM RHODES. STILL NO JOKE.

Top left: There are just 684 steps to Heaven. This steep set of s-bend steps leads to the little chapel where the picture of the cross in the section above was taken. I climbed as the sun set, starting out bathed in beautiful golden light and reaching the top in a weird red glow from the horizon. Luckily it was lit for the long climb back down. Bottom left: Right up my alley. Rhodes Town is riddled with ancient alleys like this one, complete with intriguing doors with signs above them in Greek. This one probably said 'Please don't stand on the step to have your picture take'.

Top middle: God is in the detail. I saw this single bloom beside the road and stopped to snap it at the maximum resolution my Fuji FinePix 6900 camera can produce, and thus this file is a) Just over 1mb in size, so don't expect it to download too quickly and b) Full of stunning stamen detail. Bottom middle: Vermin of the sky. There's a famous fountain in the middle of Rhodes town that must have been photographed many millions of times. This pigeon, on the other hand (where it's worth more than two in the bush) was standing on it and may not have been picked-out before.

Top right: Scooter-boi. Even though these tiny alleys are ancient and full of bumbling tourists (I'm an explorer myself, you understand) lads and occasional tanned, lith-limbed - lightly-moustached. This is a Greek island after-all - girls would belt down them on scooters. Naturally enough, I joined in. Bottom right: Out on a limb. I just liked this dry, dead branch that projected out over a cliff. What more can I say, other than I really like how natural materials look when photographed in black-and-white.

There are some other shots from Rhodes on my Portraits Page. Take a look if you feel like it.

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