Well, it's not often you find a job that pays you to visit foreign countries. I've got it pretty much made with this job, now only if I could change my luck (as Bull so eleoquently puts it!) I will leave these pictures up for about a week, after all, I am using Ace/Pappy's storage space to host the pictures. Thank you Ace/Pappy!

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Picture of the Parthenon. Apparently, during WWII they used it to store ammunition and the ammunition inside detonated/exploded/blew up (not entirely sure of the actual story) and took most of it out. The Government has been rebuilding it since 2002.

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Forgive me, but I don't want to sound like a complete idiot as I am not entirely sure of the names of these places (because of course, everything was in Greek) but I believe this was the Erechtheion. It is located on the same mountain as the Parthenon.

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View of the city of Athens, Greece from on top of the Mountain the Parthenon is located. The mountain in the background also contains some other monument/ruin but I never made it to there.

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View of what is left of the Temple Of Zeus from the top of the Mountain the Parthenon is on. The view from that Mountain was incredible. I can see why the Greeks choose to build a defensible position from there as they could keep an eye on the whole city and harbor!

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This is the stadium in the Acropolis that Yanni played at (supposedly, I am not a big Yanni fan, you would have to verify that fact with Bull!). Apparently the acoustics are so good in this ancient Ampitheater that if you dropped a pin on the stage you could hear it from wherever you sat. It makes you appreciate what they were capable of building way back then. I went and saw Van Halen at the East Rutherford, NJ stadium and I could hardly hear them! LoL

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A picture of the Acropolis/Parthenon Mountain from the street level. Yup, it was a looong walk up there, but worth it.

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Another picture like the one above just from a different side.

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Ahhhhh...Western Civilization Commercilization. Just have to love it. You can't escape it no matter where you go. It was kind of depressing to see this and Starbucks and Pizza Hut and Dominios there. The Greeks LOVE Pizza Hut.

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A picture of yours truly standing in front of the entrance to ancient Greece. Notice the Parthenon/Acropolis Mountain in the background? You just can't escape that thing!

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Another picture of yours truly standing in front of the Parthenon. It was like 100 degrees out, I was just about done after flying all night and not getting any sleep and walking everywhere all damn day long...hence the sweat marks! I was using my shirt to cover my bald head because I was getting torched!

Well, hope you enjoyed my little tourist pictures. Next stop in 2 weeks: Berlin!

Nice pictures, thanks Coz!

man , realy nice pix!! hope you post more.

Nice picts.

BTW...who is the guy with the sweaty ta-tas

Very nice stuff Coz .... really looks great-thanks.

Nice pics, except for the ones with the flat foot in them. LOL. Don't shoot, just kidding, bud.

Yea, I know. It was like 100+ plus out and it was one helluva climb up to the top of that mountain. They wouldn't let you bring anything into the site because they didn't want it contaminated. So... no water allowed. They didn't even have a water fountain up there. I was dying. On the way down I stopped at the first store I came across and paid something like $7 for a small bottle of Powerade. That store definetly was making a profit from everyone that day!

Those are awesone Coz!!

Keep posting pics when you visit cool places. Plus, pics of the local hotties are also appreciated.

PS...I am bummed that UTP got the sweating ta-tas comment before me.

What, no one is gonna make a "goin' Greek" comment?

I think that just kicks ass Coz, I mean so much history there...they basicly started modern times....powerful experience.

Bull/Ace/Pappy:

There anyway to embed code into these posts? I've put all the pictures up on Picasa web albums so I am not eating up your FTP space but I can't figure out a way to put the code in here so the slideshow shows up?

I would make a comment about body hair and how you would fit in with the locals but given that since I turned 45 (a while ago) I seem to accumulated all the fecking hair that jumped ship from my bald cabeza onto my fricking back. Son-of-a ....... LOL. You don't even look like you're at parade rest, M. Ha ha ha. The heat must have been brutal.

You have no idea how brutal that heat was. It wasn't even a 'dry heat' like it was in Saudi Arabia... it was damn near deadly. Apparently like 13 people died from the heat the day before we got there. It was also so hot that it sparked some sort of fire on top of one of the mountains and they were evacuating people from their homes when we were leaving to fly home.

Jeez Louise. That's brutal. Even Winnipeg doesn't get that hot. Glad you made it back safe and sound. Oops, wrong word considering your speaker problems. LOL.

don't worry about it coz

Thanks Pappy, but I still want to see what the embedded slide show thingie looks like!

<The chant goes up> Altogether now: "Slide show, slide show, slide show, slide show, slide show, slide show." "Everybody form a conga line and no hands on anyone's ass, Bill"

Great pics Mike. I know that job isn't all fun and games, and boring sometimes, but you do get to go to some great places for FREE!!!!

Just make sure you get rid of that rash before you come home....we dont want it

G'dammit!!!!!!

Fine - I'll say it!!!!!!!!

CoZ was goin' Greek!!!!!!

Ok, I am taking these down now so I don't kill the bandwith for Pappy/Ace.

I finally uploaded pictures of my Berlin trip. So they will be forthcoming.

Thanks again Pappy/Ace for allowing me to post them here.

I am still trying to figure out how to 'embedd' the slideshow into the forum post so I can make the Berlin pictures public.

Ugh!



That is the code that has to be put into the post in order to get the slideshow thing to work. I've tried every possible way to do it.

That should be it. Is that a good link?

Its is the link the program 'spit out' when it asked me if I wanted to embed the slideshow into a webpage. Unless I screwed something up w/ the whole copy paste thing? Let me look again.......



That should be it....

LOL@ Bill.

I set up a BBCODE to do it. You should just have to put the link in codes like this...

Freaking thing don't work Bull. Guess it is impossible.

But, thanks for trying!

I see nothing but a BIG white box

WTF?!?!

It works when I view the page!!!!

Screw this. It ain't worth it. LOL

Musta been my work blocking it...cause it works @ home

oh yea you have to slow that puppy down.

Since this has become such a huge pain in the butt and since the slideshow isn't exactly great looking; for anyone that is interested:

http://picasaweb.google.com/pocoz16/Berlin...key=ZsIfjH0M38U

That is the direct link right to the photo album online.

Sorry for all the crap posting in this thread. I was just trying to make it easier but of course, it turned out harder in the long run.

Like crap has never been posted here in the past?

Cool pics Coz.

Never by me of course!

Yeah, me neither.

Nice pictures, Coz. Nice car too.