Greece highlights
The most recent sea turtle symposium in Crete, Greece, was great, and Michael has already written some great blogs about it (see here). As always, I ended up spending most of my time during the symposium in the conference center, with little opportunity to see anything of Crete. Fortunately, our travel plans included an extra day in Crete after the symposium, when we joined Peter Richardson, Sue Ranger and family and made our way around the interior of central Crete. We even found snow on some of the mountains there. Despite the cold, Peter insisted that we stop regularly in search of griffon vultures:
This was followed by an extra day in Athens where we saw the Parthenon on the Acropolis both in the full blaze glory of a gorgeous spring morning (photo above) and also at night while sharing a drink on the hotel terrace (Kartik, Lisa and Meera):
It seemed ironic that while in Athens, we ran into several other post-symposium turtle people, despite the fact that Athens has a population of nearly 4 million!