Sep 2008
Kos
09/09/08 09:47 Opgeslagen in: Reizen
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Jens vertrok op zijn tweede vakantie. Na Menorca vlogen we nu wat verder, Kos. Vijf jaar geleden waren we al eens eiland hoppend naar Griekenland, maar nu werd het een vaste plek. vol met Nederlandse toeristen natuurlijk, maar toch. Hotel Anastasia bracht ons slechte bedden, maar ook een fijn zwembad.
De dagen bestonden vooral uit Zwemmen, dat Jens nu veel beter kan, en dat deed hij met kleine helden als Alicia, Noah en Jesse. Klimmen op het Luchtbed, spelen met de basl, en er tien keer inspringen.
Eten buiten de toeristische zone
Maar Cultuur werd er ook gesnoven, natuurlijk in het Asklepieion van Hippocrates. Jens vond de tempels, zowel grieks als Romeins heerlijk om op te klimmen. Van Hippocrates is weinig bekend, maar dit is waarschijnlijk wel zijn werd. Over Plaatsen, Water en Lucht.
Asklepieion
Whoever wishes to investigate properly, should proceed thus: in the first place to consider the seasons of the year, and what effects each of them produces for they are not at all alike, but differ much from themselves in regard to their changes. Then the winds, the hot and the cold, especially such as are common to all countries, and then such as are peculiar to each locality. We must also consider the qualities of the waters, for as they differ from one another in taste and weight, so also do they differ much in their qualities. In the same manner, when one comes into a city to which he is a stranger, he ought to consider its situation, how it lies as to the winds and the rising of the sun; for its influence is not the same whether it lies to the north or the south, to the rising or to the setting sun. These things one ought to consider most attentively, and concerning the waters which the inhabitants use, whether they be marshy and soft, or hard, and running from elevated and rocky situations, and then if saltish and unfit for cooking; and the ground, whether it be naked and deficient in water, or wooded and well watered, and whether it lies in a hollow, confined situation, or is elevated and cold; and the mode in which the inhabitants live, and what are their pursuits, whether they are fond of drinking and eating to excess, and given to indolence, or are fond of exercise and labor, and not given to excess in eating and drinking.
Het kasteel van de Johannieter Ridders, die de eilandjes in de veertiende eeuw in handen hadden was mooi, en Jens dook in elk kanteel. Over duiken gesproken: met de Liamis vertrok Rick naar Pserimos waar een wrak vol Potten lag en Octopussen de boel onveilig maakten.
Kasteel
Jens vertrok op zijn tweede vakantie. Na Menorca vlogen we nu wat verder, Kos. Vijf jaar geleden waren we al eens eiland hoppend naar Griekenland, maar nu werd het een vaste plek. vol met Nederlandse toeristen natuurlijk, maar toch. Hotel Anastasia bracht ons slechte bedden, maar ook een fijn zwembad.
De dagen bestonden vooral uit Zwemmen, dat Jens nu veel beter kan, en dat deed hij met kleine helden als Alicia, Noah en Jesse. Klimmen op het Luchtbed, spelen met de basl, en er tien keer inspringen.
Eten buiten de toeristische zone
Maar Cultuur werd er ook gesnoven, natuurlijk in het Asklepieion van Hippocrates. Jens vond de tempels, zowel grieks als Romeins heerlijk om op te klimmen. Van Hippocrates is weinig bekend, maar dit is waarschijnlijk wel zijn werd. Over Plaatsen, Water en Lucht.
Asklepieion
Whoever wishes to investigate properly, should proceed thus: in the first place to consider the seasons of the year, and what effects each of them produces for they are not at all alike, but differ much from themselves in regard to their changes. Then the winds, the hot and the cold, especially such as are common to all countries, and then such as are peculiar to each locality. We must also consider the qualities of the waters, for as they differ from one another in taste and weight, so also do they differ much in their qualities. In the same manner, when one comes into a city to which he is a stranger, he ought to consider its situation, how it lies as to the winds and the rising of the sun; for its influence is not the same whether it lies to the north or the south, to the rising or to the setting sun. These things one ought to consider most attentively, and concerning the waters which the inhabitants use, whether they be marshy and soft, or hard, and running from elevated and rocky situations, and then if saltish and unfit for cooking; and the ground, whether it be naked and deficient in water, or wooded and well watered, and whether it lies in a hollow, confined situation, or is elevated and cold; and the mode in which the inhabitants live, and what are their pursuits, whether they are fond of drinking and eating to excess, and given to indolence, or are fond of exercise and labor, and not given to excess in eating and drinking.
Het kasteel van de Johannieter Ridders, die de eilandjes in de veertiende eeuw in handen hadden was mooi, en Jens dook in elk kanteel. Over duiken gesproken: met de Liamis vertrok Rick naar Pserimos waar een wrak vol Potten lag en Octopussen de boel onveilig maakten.
Kasteel
Praha
Link brought me to Praha this week. I'm not sure what to think of the of the city. The suburbs are quite relaxed, I had a great meal at Bileholva. It was on a boulevard, with passing Tram 22s under leafy trees. It this part of Prague not many flats were communist barracks.
The public transport system is quite nice, with a typical Eastern European Metro-Triangle in the centre. Travel information isn't that good, with lots of horrible looking maps. I did get a chance to drink a cappuccino in an old Tram though, amidst Soviet tanks for the Prague spring (1968) remembrance. Do avoid the rest of the centre. It looks nice, in a Habsburg way, but it is too filled with tourists for my comfort.
