Comments on: Some of my travels http://thewinger.com/words/2007/some-of-my-travels/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:56:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: kate bordwell http://thewinger.com/words/2007/some-of-my-travels/#comment-10230 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:39:37 +0000 http://thewinger.com/words/2007/some-of-my-travels/#comment-10230 They have a marker in the harbour in Rhodes Town indicate where the Colossus is supposed to have been. I know what you mean about the ancients building incredible things - the cats above lived in the acropolis in Lindos, which was high up above the harbour in the last picture. We all marvelled at how the ancient Greeks would have carried all the stone up to the acropolis to build it - and how they would have got water up there! They have a marker in the harbour in Rhodes Town indicate where the Colossus is supposed to have been.

I know what you mean about the ancients building incredible things - the cats above lived in the acropolis in Lindos, which was high up above the harbour in the last picture. We all marvelled at how the ancient Greeks would have carried all the stone up to the acropolis to build it - and how they would have got water up there!

]]> by: kristin sloan http://thewinger.com/words/2007/some-of-my-travels/#comment-10211 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:52:23 +0000 http://thewinger.com/words/2007/some-of-my-travels/#comment-10211 wow this looks amazing! thanks for sharing. do they have anything special there about the colossus of rhodes? ancient history is so facsinating, especially when you think about how there was something so incredible in a place where there is now nothing. wow this looks amazing! thanks for sharing.

do they have anything special there about the colossus of rhodes? ancient history is so facsinating, especially when you think about how there was something so incredible in a place where there is now nothing.

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