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| Old Olive... |
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| Church of St George mosaic |
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| The Chapel of the Black Madonna |
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| This has to be one of my favourite paintings of all time - though the 'wee man' Jesus is a bit old for the role - its thought that the first inhabitants of Vamos on Crete were Arab pirates. The fact that Crete straddles the Cretan Sea and the Libyan Sea and is a direct link to North Africa suggests this image is not as unusual as it might seem - though quite rare in its own right. I like the walk there and coming across it in a now rough terrain - and quite hidden, you can just stumble across it but its unlikely you would because the route is well of any beaten track. As it was we had to negotiate all sorts, even exploding poppies - and blimey they can be scary. |
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| Thistle |
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Wild fennel - the woods round the Chapel are full of flowers, sage, fennel and the like.... and this song is by a friend of my mine about growing plants in the face of adversity - Mike Reinstein and The Gardener of Aleppo, great:
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