Greek islands, Selcuk, and London

This is the last installment of pictures from the Europe leg of my trip.

Santorini. There are lots of dogs and Annalisa likes them.

Oia, Santorini.

Oia, Santorini.

Naxos. First sunset.

Naxos.

Mykonos.

Mykonos.

Ferry from Samos (Greece) to Selcuk (Turkey), and the first sunset in Turkey. Samos is only an hour away by ferry from Turkey in the Aegean sea.


Tourists at Ephesus.

LONDON AND LONDONERS














These are anti-war protesters outside Parliament in London. One of them, I think his name is Brian Haw (not pictured), has been there for six years, before the Iraq invasion. They have permits for twenty people to camp out there.







Monty Python's Spamalot is playing!

For the record, I am indeed home, but I am sifting through almost two thousand new messages, old mail, getting tested for TB, and re-packing for New York on Saturday. My computer is having issues (crashing randomly) so I may be slow in responding to emails, blogging, and getting around to the thousands of photos I took (I think the last count was about 9,250 photos). This means not only will I be slow in posting pictures on my blog, but processing these thousands of photos for my fellow IHP students.

Oh yes, one last thing. I got to add one more country to my list of countries visited on this trip. I'm still highly jealous of Laura, David and Bazazi for going to Lesotho and pony-trekking (this was my dream BEFORE the entire program began, and one of the main reasons I decided to spend an extra week in Africa), but I suppose France, Greece, and Turkey made up for it. And, I was able to jump through British Airway's bureaucratic hoops and check all my baggage back to Boston, which ultimately meant I could go into London and walk around for a couple hours during my nine hours in transit. I took out ten pounds (around $20 USD) at Barclays, Bank of America's British partner, and spent it very wisely:
6.70 pounds for an all-day London metro pass
2.25 pounds for a McDonald's cheeseburger happy meal (you learn to be calorie-efficient/cost-effective when travelling on a budget).
65 cents on a grape-drink.
I got to see quite a lot of London in those couple hours; my favorite parts included the free "Photographer's Gallery" which had an exhibit on Found photographs (of "Found" magazine fame), and talking with the anti-war protesters who've been camping outside of Parliament for six years. Pictures will come (I know I keep saying that, but they will.).