Last weekend I journeyed in a bus for five hours with thirty teenagers, endured the chaos of security at the Bologna airport and flew to Rhodes, Greece. It was well worth the trip. Rhodes is famous for being the site of one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the Colossus of Rhodes. Apparently this gigantic bronze statue that spanned the entrance to the harbour was destroyed by an earthquake. In its place are two towers mounted by statues of deer. Not quite the attraction the Colossus would have been but one can imagine! Our first day in Greece was spent in Lindos a town on a hillside overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. High on a hill just above the town is the Acropolis, built by the Greeks around 300BC then taken over by the Romans, the
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