Wednesday 25 May 2011

Kastelorizo


view of Rhodes old city from the harbour

leaving for Kastelorizo

heading towards the horizon

nearly 3 hours later...

Kastelorizo, the setting for Mediterraneo

only a few hundred inhabitants left, from the original 10,000

local fishermen

a quick stroll and you have seen it all

time for lunch, freshly caught, cleaned and cooked seafood

I was going to go to Symi, a small island off the coast for a day trip, but at the last minute changed my mind and decided to go to Kastelorizo instead.
Almost all the Greek people I ever met in Australia came from Kastelorizo. I had heard that it was a beautiful island.
The trip from Rhodes took much longer than I thought, but it was worth the short time there. 

Kastelorizo is the smallest of the Dodecanese islands. At one point it had over 10,000 inhabitants. Today there are about 350.

Kastelorizo was the setting for the 1991 Oscar winning film Mediterraneo.


a presto
Mon x




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