Marathonos Ave
Taj Mahal Restaurant
(North East of Athens)

Run 1689 (Sunday 18th April 2010)

Hare: Fair Cop

Photographers:Prickly Bush + Mad Dog

 

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The lat/lon coordinates of the starting point & circle: 38° 6'59.42"N, 23°58'38.94"E     

Altitude: 8 metres above sea level

Initial air temperature (11.00 hrs) = 16 deg.C

Trail cartographic Length = 8.4 km

 

The trail from 3.5 km altitude

 

Hashers parking and circle location in the car park for the Tomb of the Athenians.

The Battle of Marathon

In September of 490 BC a Persian armada of 600 ships disgorged an invasion force of more than 20,000 infantry and cavalry on the Plain of Marathon. The Athenian army engaged with them and an estimated 6,400 Persians were slaughtered while only 192 Greeks were killed.

The Tomb of the Athenians is the most important monument of the Marathon area. It is a hill  50 metres in diameter and 9 metres high, covering the 192 Athenians that died fighting against the Persians.

Although it was customary to bury war casualties in the Kerameikos cemetery in Athens, the 192 Athenian dead from this astonishing victory were cremated and buried together in the mound that still stands on the battlefield. When the Athenian mound was excavated in the late 19th century, quantities of ashes and burned bones were found.

 

The trail from 25km altitude -
Showing Mount Pendeli to the left and the islands of Stira and Evia on the right.

 

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The hare points out a magnificent herd a roaming wildebeest

 

The hare Fair Cop

 

Napoleon's Boney Part impersonates Mr Bean

 

Pretty boys

 

Watering the trail

 

Napoleon leads the hashers downhill

 

Maniella powering on

 

Who's checking

 

This hash is rubbish

 

Sea views

 

A refreshing beer stop

 

Miltiades

One of the Greek generals - Miltiades - made a passionate plea for boldness and convinced his fellow generals to attack the Persians.

 

Group photo round the statue of Miltiades

 

More posing!

 

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The hare's DIO.
Note the pottery mug. The hare forgot to bring the hash tankards

 

Clitoria tells of misdemeanors on the walkers trail

 

A DIO for Kum Kwik

 

Guilty of watering the trail

 

Napoleon and Maniella share a DIO

 

The circle

 

Spanish Fly's last Athens Hash before leaving for Holland

 

She is absolutely delighted to be presented with a set of books.
So heavy she can barely lift them.

Additionally a poem written for her by BOD was read out to her.

 

The content of the books will be useful to her in Holland.

 

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Location of the Taj Mahal restaurant

 

Doggie Style outside the Taj Mahal.

 

Coffee Crepe and Napoleon's Boney Part at the Curry House

 

Shiva in Miltiades pose

 

Indian themes

 

Hashers enjoying the indian food

 

Seen from the other end of the table

SOME OF THE DISHES....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOTES To save a photo to your disk drive: - Internet Explorer - Netscape Navigator - Opera - (1) Right-click your mouse on the photo (2) A menu appears (3) Click on "Save Picture As" (or "Save Image") (4) Pull-down the "Save In" menu (click the down-arrow) (5) Double-click on a disk drive letter (to choose a drive) (6) Double click on a directory icon (if applicable) (7) Type in a File name of your choice for the picture (8) Click Save To send the photo by e-mail as an attachment: - Outlook Express - (1) Click the "Create Mail" button to start a new e-mail (2) Click Insert > File Attachment (3) Pull-down the "Look In" menu (click the down arrow) (4) Double-click on a disk drive letter (to choose the drive) (5) Double click on a directory icon (if applicable) (6) Click on the photo file name to highlight it (7) Click "Attach" to attach the photo to the e-mail                                                                         MD Feb. 2006

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