Thursday, February 24, 2011

Day 172


Shiny shovel shiny shades.
This is the first guest stranger blog...sent to me from an avid follower and posted up for the day. If you have any good photos of strangers doing even stranger things please email them to me.
thanks for viewing
fred

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Day 168 Marathon






Ladies Crossing

The name Marathon comes from the legend of Pheidippides, a Greek messenger. The legend states that he was sent from the battlefield of Marathon to Athens to announce that the Persians had been defeated in the Battle of Marathon (in which he had just fought),which took place in August or September, 490 BC.

It is said that he ran the entire distance without stopping and burst into the assembly, exclaiming "Νενικήκαμεν" (Nenikékamen, 'We have won.') before collapsing and dying.