Varibobi - Tatoi
(Northern Athens)

Run 1735 (Sunday 27th February 2011)

Hares: Chooting Star & Mountain Goat

Photographer: Mad Dog

NOTE1: Use the horizontal scroll bar (bottom of screen) to view the panoramic photos.
NOTE2: The Lat. & Lon. coords can be copied and pasted into the Google Earth 'Fly-to' window.


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The starting point & circle (P):  38° 9'19.35"N,    23°47'30.07"E

Altitude: 444 metres above sea level

Trail cartographic Length = 4.2 km

 

The trail from 3.2 km up

 

The trail from 16.7 km up

 

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The two hares Chooting Star & Mountain Goat -plus- Formosa Flyer (centre) -and- Mad Dog (photographer)

OK it's very cold this day & overcast & gloomy - but where is everybody?

 

Heading into the undergrowth

 

Hare Mountain Goat with his blue flour blob on a fallen tree trunk

 

We come to the first of the Royal Graves

 

   

Left: Aspasia - Princess of Greece.
Born in Athens 4/9/1896. Died in Venice 7/8/1972

Right: Alexandra - Queen of Yugoslavia, Princess of Greece, Princess of Denmark.
Born in Athens 25/3/1921. Died in London 30/1/1993

 

The second grave.

 

    

Left: Pavlos, King of Greece, Prince of Denmark
Born in Athens 14/12/1901. Died in Dekelia. Athens 8/3/1964

Right: Freideriki, Queen of Greece
Born in Blakenburg, Germany 18/04/1917, Died in Madrid 5/2/1984

NOTE: These are the parents of the present ex-king Constantine.

 

On towards grave three

 

  

Grave three

Marie, Princess Georgiou of Greece, Princess Bonaparte, Princess of Denmark
Born in St. Cloud 2/7/1882. Died St. Tropez 21/9/1962

 

   

Grave four

Georgios, Prince of Greece, Prince of Denmark, Commander of the Navy, Viceroy of Crete
Born in Corfu 24/6/1869. Died St. Cloud 26/11/1957

Quote from Psalm 23

 

 

   

Georgios II (B=2), King of Greece, Prince of Denmark

 

 

 

   

 

Formosa Flyer, Chooting Star & Mad Dog

 



Royal Greek mausoleum

Μαυσωλείο παλαιών βασιλιάδων της Ελλάδας στο Τατόϊ

 

Chooting Star, Mountain Goat & Formosa Flyer

 

Thick undergrowth in the Royal Forest

 

On On!

 

View of the Tatoi Royal Estate Police Station

 


View of the recently-contructed shelter and surrounds
(NOTE: The swings are off to the right)

 

Map of the area - showing the royal estate's geographical relationship to Mount Parnitha

 

On-down towards the main road ...and the BEER!

 

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The 2-hare's down-down

 

Guess who turned-up late and went on a walk by themselves?

Here's Clitoria returning after the circle was underway.

 

Down down for Clitoria

 

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None this week - everyone too bloomin' cold...

 

 

 

 

 

NOTES

To save a photo to your disk drive:
 - Internet Explorer - Netscape Navigator - Opera -

(1) Right-click your mouse on the photo
(2) A menu appears
(3) Click on "Save Picture As" (or "Save Image")
(4) Pull-down the "Save In" menu (click the down-arrow)
(5) Double-click on a disk drive letter (to choose a drive)
(6) Double click on a directory icon (if applicable)
(7) Type in a File name of your choice for the picture
(8) Click Save

To send the photo by e-mail as an attachment:
- Outlook Express -

(1) Click the "Create Mail" button to start a new e-mail
(2) Click Insert > File Attachment
(3) Pull-down the "Look In" menu (click the down arrow)
(4) Double-click on a disk drive letter (to choose the drive)
(5) Double click on a directory icon (if applicable)
(6) Click on the photo file name to highlight it
(7) Click "Attach" to attach the photo to the e-mail

                                                                        MD Feb. 2006



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