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The Petřínská rozhledna (Petřín Lookout Tower) is literally Prague’s Eiffel tower, though not really (read the link!). It’s much shorter than the one in Paris, but built on a hill so it’s actually higher…HA! now that’s thinking, suck on that France.
Oh, there’s a panorama below, you should probably click on it and make it big, no pressure though.
This beautiful view of Santorini in Greece comes from Stella. She tells me that Santorini features in the myth of Jason and the Argonauts. Apparently, when Jason and his companions landed on the island of Anaphe in the Aegean Sea, Euphemus had a dream that he had impregnated a nymph and was told to throw a clod of earth from Anaphe into the sea so she could have a safe place to give birth. When he awoke, he did just that and sure enough the island of Thera (now Santorini) emerged! What a great story, it fitted perfectly on the card too! Awesome!
Meteora, Greece. A baking hot day, forty plus in the shade. I think I melted. But it was worth it for the views and the monasteries. They were built into the rocks, a way for monks to retreat to pray and to save their skins from the enemy. A tour of Grand Meteora brought about some interesting and unexpected sights: museums and displays which honoured the dead of the wars, martyred, the military dead as well as the religious. Funny how the two so often cross.