Rhodes

The trip to Rhodes was breathtaking. Here's a bunch of us on the boat:

Despite the disruptions caused by the election, we managed to see the three early cities of Rhodes:
Lindos:

Ialysos:

and Kameiros:

But we had the most fun exploring the city of Rhodes, with its old walls:

And we were especially moved by our exploration of the Jewish quarter, with the remaining synagogue, and the museum documenting the Jewish community that lived on the island from the period of the Roman empire to WWII.

Here's the bema; it sits in the middle of the sanctuary, in the Sephardic tradition.

Leslie has written about the layers of traditions at Rhodes--ancient Greek, Byzantine, Knights of St. John, Jewish, Ottoman, Italian, modern Greek. That extends to the present day: I'm sure we saw more Germans, Dutch, French on the island than Greeks. But when you get out of Rhodes town, you are back on a slightly sleepy Greek island.