Rainy summer holidays

This year we decided - for the first time - to stay in Germany for summer holidays. I guess this won't happen again any time soon ...
Despite the bad weather, we spent some nice days in Potsdam, Berlin and Rheinsberg. Rheinsberg has a small castle and park with open-air opera performances during summer. As you can guess from the dark clouds on the day of our visit, the performance was not-so-open-air for us.

Sparrows

While feeding some ducks and swans in a small lake in the Potsdam's park Sans-souci, a group of sparrows, attracted by the bread crumbs, provided some interesting motives for pictures.

Sunday lunch

I haven't posted in a while, partly because we are rather busy recently ;)
Not to have too long a break here a picture of today's lunch. It's our first attempt at cooking kleftiko, which is essentially lamb in the oven. What made this recipe interesting was a layer of dough covering the lamb. It made it look rather pretty but also tasted very good ;)

Flying back to Athens

While I still remember the excitment during my first flights, it doesn't happen very often anymore that I'm getting really excited by the view from an airplane. However, when flying back from Santorini to Athens, we witnessed an amazing sunset, which bathed the islands on the way as well as Athens in a beautiful light. I couldn't choose between two pictures, so I'm gonna post them both.

Santorini gallery is online

I just uploaded the gallery from out recent trip to Santorini to colors · and · contrasts. Here an image pf the 'indian face' rock, taken from the lighthouse at the south tip of the island. Can you spot the face?

More Santorini

What makes Santorini particularly picturesque is the combination of the unique landscape and its beautiful villages. There are so many corners and views which look just like in a picture book, it's hard to stop taking photographs. What makes the architecture particularly interesting is its rather strict and abstract geometry, which produces a great contrast to the natural shapes of the island. This combined with the exquisite locations of balconies, pools and terraces produces some spectacular views.

Sunset over Oia

Some weeks ago, we went to Santorini for the first time. It was very beautiful indeed, with (relatively) few people and many flowers. Of course, when you go to Santorini you can't miss the sunset at the 'sunset-village' Oia, which is praised as the best sunset of Greece (... the Mediterranean ... the world?). In any case, it might be the only place where people applaud the sun night after night for its marvelous performance. (Click on the image for a much larger - yet still not full resolution - version.)