I have transferred the blogs from the old website to this blog.

Canicus in Italia: Day 4 (3 July 2012) about Herculaneum is out of order. Sorry about that. After I had transferred everything else I noticed that I had missed that blog.

The photos from my previous travels are in the archives at http://canicusmodius.com/.

I will actually depart from DFW on Monday and the first blog from Greece should be sometime Tuesday evening. There will be a few preliminary blogs from Dallas before I leave; this is one.

Athens is 8 hours ahead of Dallas. In other words 8 PM in Athens is noon in Dallas.

My hotel has an outdoor swimming pool and the highs in Athens should be perfect for swimming. The online reviews also say that there is a rooftop terrace with a spectacular view of the Acropolis. Right now that plus a nap looks like the plan after a hotel check in hotel Tuesday afternoon.

The photo journals will be using the JavaScript webpage I wrote and used last year. I may post a few on my FB page. I’m guessing the free hotel WiFi will be slow and it is faster to FTP to my website than to create albums on FB.

The camera I will be taking is a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200. It takes good HD videos as well as photos. So if I find some interesting action I may do some videos. Those probably will go on YouTube, if I can tolerate the slow upload. Otherwise they may wait until I return and can upload faster at home. Right now the only ‘action’ I can think of is the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Things like the Parthenon tend not to move around much.

I have set up a Twitter account — @canicusmodius — I’ll try to tweet some. Don’t look for much political commentary on my FB page, here or on Twitter. I’ll be focused 2,500 years ago. But then, Athens was the birthplace of democracy then.