see also:

• travelling to conferences in Barcelona, Spain
• traveling to Oslo, Norway for conferences
• sandflies in the Greek islands:
  • https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6433342_Faunistic_study_of_sandflies_in_Greece
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5819154/

• Rhodes (Rodos) is one of the far eastern Greek islands lying just off the coast of Turkey which can be accessed via a ferry
• main town is Rhodes on the NE tip with population 125,000 and originally built in 404BC, rebuilt into a model of the European medieval ideal by the Knights Hospitaller Knights of Rhodes with strong walls in c1310
• 80km long x 38km wide spearhead shaped mountainous limestone island with pine and cypress forests; airport is 14km from Rhodes city
• hot-summer Mediterranean climate
• island is dotted with small villages of whitewashed homes
• shores are rocky
• Colossus of Rhodes of their sun god Helios (c304BC) was destroyed in the earthquake of 226BC
• an earthquake in 1481 destroyed much of the city with further damage from quakes in 1926 and 2008
• Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem (Knights Hospitaller) ruled the island from 1310 to 1522 when the city fell to the large army of Suleiman the Magnificent after a 6 month siege and the Knights then moved the base of their operations to Malta while the Ottomans rued Rhodes for the next 4 centuries and there are still around 4000 Turks living there
• 1912, Italy seized Rhodes from the Ottomans during the Italo-Turkish War resulting in many Italians colonizing the island
• in 1943, Germany succeeded in occupying the island with the Battle of Rhodes and then sent the local Jews to concentration camps - in the 1920's, Jews accounted for a third of the population and by the 1940's there were ~2000 living there before Germany invaded
• in 1947, at the Paris Peace Treaties, Rhodes, together with the other islands of the Dodecanese, was united with Greece and the 6,000 Italian colonists were forced to abandon the island and returned to Italy, although some 2000 still remain.
• Sept 7-10th: AAEM MEMC23 - Rhodes, Greece
  • Sheraton Rhodes Resort
    • 5km 1hr walk along beach to old city

• Sept:
  • avg temp range 21-28degC, with 61% humidity, mainly sunny, avg rainfall 6mm on 1.5 days,

• Emirates:
  • to Athens Sun pm 3rd Sept and then local flight to Rhodes
• Qatar
  • to Athens Sat pm 2nd Sept arr Athens noon Sun 3rd then flight to Rhodes at 1415hrs?

• Malta Air:
  • Sat 2nd: 1245hrs arr 1925hrs via Bologna
  • Mon 4th Sept 0950hrs arr 1755hrs Rhodes via Bologna (2hr 20 stopover)
  • Mon 4th Sept 1315hrs arr 2120hrs Rhodes via Bologna (2hr 45 stopover)
• Aegean:
  • Tues 5th Sept: 1655hrs arr 2320hrs Rhodes via Athens (3hrs stopover)
• Neos Air:
  • Wed 6th Sept: 1000hrs arr 1410hrs Rhodes via Crete 50min stopover

• see also travelling to conferences in Barcelona, Spain
• via Athens
• via London Gatwick
• via Milan, Italy
• via Marseille, France
• via ferry from Rhodes to Fethiye, Turkey then (800km by road to Istanbul, or a flight Antalya to Istanbul or Geneva) then flight to Barcelona

• Acropolis of Lindos
• Anthony Quinn Bay - nice beach
• walled medieval town of Rhodes - the oldest continuously inhabited medieval city in Europe
• Acropolis of Rhodes
• Symi Island - one of the prettiest Greek Islands
• Mandraki Harbour
• Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes - originally constructed in 14thC by Knights of St John
• Valley of Butterflies - each summer, thousands of colorful butterflies congregate in the humid Petaloudes Valley
• Afandou Beach
• Profitis Ilias - highest point, nice views
• St Paul's Bay
• Rhodes Jewish Museum
• Tsambika Beach
• Nisyros volcanic island (Nisiros)
• the Seven Springs (Epta Piges) comprises seven natural springs that feed into a small man-made lake
• Street of the Knights (Odos Ippoton) - one of Europe’s best-preserved medieval streets