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Ag. Theódori Lighthouse
At the tip of the Lassí peninsula
Left view from road and right from the rocks
Close up of the columns
The doric rotunda was built in 1829 by British High Commissioner Charles Napier, and then reconstructed to its original plans after the 1875 earthquake.
Sue and I met in a Brighton pub called The Sir Charles Napier, so it was nice to come here.
Of the Greeks, Napier said:-
"...Now I am once more amongst the merry Greeks, who are worth all other nations put together. I like to hear them: I like their fun, their good humour, their paddy ways, for they are like Irishmen. All their bad habits are Venetian: their wit, their eloquence, their good nature are their own..."
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