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Spring Break Trip to Greece - the Flight

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From Cairo to Athens: A Birdseye View
Square green plots of farmland, fed by the delta of the Nile, intersected by long straight roads – or are they irrigation lanes?
The big city of Alexandria, crowding the coastline and seeming to push out into the sea.
Incredible clouds rising up above the sea – huge masses of puffy cumulus
Flying across the open expanse of aegean blue Mediterranean Sea in a NW direction
Passing over the huge island of Crete rolled out like pie dough in all directions, surrounded by small uninhabited tiny islands with huge cliffs rising out of the water.
Karpathos to the east, then more and more roads running along high ridges with towns nestled in depressions, lowlands.
A white ferry pushing ahead, connecting two islands.
Unusual contrast of blindingly white snow on mountains in distance with irridescent blue water ringing the islands.
White windmils slowly turning on the highest tree-lined ridge.
Banking west into the Saronic Gulf for a first sight of Athens.
Modern high-rises mixed with traditional red roof houses interspersed with olive gardens.
Stripes of color in carefully plotted farm land.
Mountains ringing the city of Athens.
A familiar Scandinavian blue IKEA typically planted new the airport.
Blue and white stripes with a white cross on the a blue field flying in the stiff wind as a welcome as we touch down.
Let the relaxing begin…

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