Category Archives: Europe
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Olympic Stadium: Athens
1Wednesday 11 May, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Stunning cathedral of Pompei
4Sunday 08 May, 2016 by Uncle Spike
This is the magnificent Pontifical Shrine of the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary of Pompei. This Roman Catholic cathedral is a …
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Architecture of Syros
4Saturday 07 May, 2016 by Uncle Spike
The Greek island of Syros is the northernmost isle of the Cyclades, and covers 83 sq km (32 sq miles) with …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Sicilian Backstreets
3Wednesday 20 April, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Dinnertime (II)
10Saturday 16 April, 2016 by Uncle Spike
My second Weekly Photo Challenge memory trigger of ‘Dinnertime’ is of a great little Mexican place we found in a small …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Trinità dei Monti
2Wednesday 06 April, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Landscape (III)
6Sunday 03 April, 2016 by Uncle Spike
My third ‘Landscape’ entry for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the beautiful area of Mavrovo Lake, in the western hills of the …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Hellenic Parliament
Leave a commentWednesday 23 March, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Wordless Wednesday ~ All Saints Church
12Wednesday 17 February, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Time (IV)
4Monday 08 February, 2016 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and final entry Weekly Photo Challenge image is the clock tower in the centre of Bitoal, in …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ San Martino, Siracusa, Sicily
8Wednesday 03 February, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Trio (I)
24Friday 20 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a weird sight, but actually it represents the Triskelion or Trinacria, …
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Fishing vessel: Syros, Greek Cyclades
2Saturday 24 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Stavros the dog!
6Wednesday 30 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Even though I was brought up with dogs, and decades later still have a farm pooch, I’m not one to …
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The church at dawn
Leave a commentThursday 17 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This small orthodox church sat atop a hilltop on a Greek island in the Dodecanese was dark and mysterious as …
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View from Leros island
4Tuesday 15 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Serene Sunday
1Sunday 13 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Orthodox Cathedral: Naxos, Greece
4Tuesday 01 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Modern Datça
Leave a commentSaturday 29 August, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Having posted about the ancient cities of Burgaz and Knidos, both on the Datça peninsula on the western coast of …
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The FIRST Knidos…
8Thursday 27 August, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Found these old walls the other day when out tramping around Datça, a peninsula on the western coast of Turkey …
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The town church
3Thursday 27 August, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Bell Tower
3Saturday 22 August, 2015 by Uncle Spike
The bell tower next to the cathedral in Pothia, Kalymnos A fine structure that is a dream to photograph Would …
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The Bakery
3Tuesday 18 August, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Just love this elegant little backstreet bakery 🙂 Pothia, Kalymnos, Dodecanese, Greece . .
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Cathedral Square
3Thursday 13 August, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This is the cathedral in Pothia, Kalymnos With its beautiful mosaic courtyard .
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Images of Naxos hinterland (2 of 2)
4Sunday 24 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
In the first of this two-parter about the Greek Cyclades island of Naxos, you’ll have seen a few general pics of …
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Images of Naxos hinterland (1 of 2)
6Sunday 17 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Naxos was a fleeting visit for us; sandwiched between time spent on a couple of other Greek islands, Astypalea and …
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Greek Goats
11Sunday 12 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
We are so used to seeing goats all over the place. Our neighbouring farms keep them, we hear them every …
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The ‘other’ bikes of Syros
13Thursday 26 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Having mentioned the top-end bikes we came across on the Cyclades island of Syros, one mustn’t think that all the …
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Top end bikes of Syros
Leave a commentWednesday 25 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Like most islands in Greece, the Cyclades island of Syros is no different in terms of having an abundance of …
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Snack Lunch, Cyclades Style
17Tuesday 10 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
I could so eat this right now – my absolute favourite snack. How about you? .
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Odd find on a Greek island!
6Wednesday 04 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
How’s this for an odd find? Look at the photo below; anything seem out of place? . . Look again, …
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Tower of Ayia
4Saturday 28 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Naxos is one of the Cyclades, a Greek island chain close enough to home for us to get to, albeit …
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Memories of Derbyshire
14Friday 06 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Sunday mornings, Out on the bike, On roads like these… . . A look back at days gone by, living …
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Greek Island Garbage Guy
19Thursday 05 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Island life is generally different wherever you go, and the Greek Dodecanese are no different. The pace of life is much slower, and …
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Greek Island Cats
18Wednesday 04 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
I’m a doggie person I guess on the whole, having grown up with various woofers in the house since I …
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Memories of Loch Ness and a Young Punk
11Sunday 01 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Some of the most famous lochs of Scotland have roads that hug the edge of the water for miles on …
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Scotland – Final Photos
12Saturday 31 January, 2015 by Uncle Spike
I think this is my last in the series of images of Scotland. I had another root around the big …
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Tiny Church of Telendos
8Saturday 31 January, 2015 by Uncle Spike
One of our favourite haunts is the Greek island of Kalymnos, part of the Dodecanese chain in the Aegean Sea, …
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Back in Scotland
11Sunday 25 January, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Once more I delve into the photo box in search of more Scottish scenes, and I think I struck lucky. …
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Images of Scotland
19Sunday 18 January, 2015 by Uncle Spike
After the earlier post from Scotland seemed so popular, I got to digging through my box of old prints once …
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Visiting Scotland
34Sunday 11 January, 2015 by Uncle Spike
With the rib injury, I’ve recently had a chance to dig through my old box of photographic prints, and even …
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Adding Perspective, or Some Bloke Got In The Way?
7Thursday 08 January, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Greek Sunrise
5Wednesday 24 September, 2014 by Uncle Spike
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Summer Lovin’ (III)
8Sunday 27 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge was taken from the back of the high speed catamaran …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Summer Lovin’ (II)
6Saturday 26 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the Villa d’Este in Tivoli, near Rome, Italy. Taken by …
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Battle of Leros
8Sunday 02 February, 2014 by Uncle Spike
. Last summer Clan Spike headed across the short stretch of water that separates our country of Turkey, with that …
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Greek Islands & White Paint
4Sunday 15 December, 2013 by Uncle Spike
There are some views from this planet that really don’t warrant any form of introduction or explanatory note. You know, …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Let There Be Light! (III)
14Tuesday 03 December, 2013 by Uncle Spike
Let there be light…! Clan Spike’s third and final entry for this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge is not from Turkey …
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Teenage Camping, Soggy Style
7Monday 02 December, 2013 by Uncle Spike
Uncle Spike owns a bicycle which rusts away happily in the garage. Yes, I’m not exactly one of those ‘keen …
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A Bit Of Dutch Hospitality
10Tuesday 08 October, 2013 by Uncle Spike
Sometime around 10pm on a dark rainy autumn evening in 1987, I arrived in the small town of Hoofddorp, just …
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