Cats in Jordan

And one final cat. This kitten was one of a pair running around the empty restaurant at the hotel in Aqaba.

Cats in Greece

Of course there was a cat. There were always cats.

Cats in Greece

A cat outside the monastery walls because of course there was a cat.

Cats in Greece

Another kitten, this time in Rethymno, in Crete.

Moving on from the pre-cruise Classical Greece tour now, and since the spring semester starts soon, I don't expect to finish writing up this trip anytime soon. But there are still pictures I haven't gone through and some very cool locations to write about.

Cats in Saudi Arabia

Continuing with the theme...

The cats in Jeddah were small, skinny, and skittish, unlike their plump Greek cousins.

Cats in Greece

There may not have been any other people in the moat, but of course there was a cat.

Cats in Greece

These cats were both in Ephesus, so technically this is Cats in Türkiye, but Ephesus is a Hellenic site, so I think it counts as Greece-adjacent.

Cats in Greece

Patroling the acropolis at Mycenae.

Sunday cat blogging

Many years ago I saw a collection of notecards in a bookstore called Cats in Greece. Each of the cards featured a picture-postcard photograph of Greece, like ruins against a mountain backdrop or whitewashed buildings on a hill above the sea, with a cat. I found this hilarious for some reason and almost bought the cards, even though I knew I'd never use them.

I've been reminded of that on this trip, because cats are in fact everywhere in Greece. Every ruin, every restaurant, every landmark, has at least one cat. I saw these two in Nafplion today. The kitten was wandering by itself on a street in the Old Town, and Mama Cat appeared and herded him back into a walled garden. I saw another cat on the same street with half of a very large fish in his mouth, but alas I couldn't get a picture.

Scaredy cat

This sweet little cat, barely past kittenhood, posed so nicely by the Texas bluebonnets when Judy and I were taking pictures after having brunch at the Wildcatter's restaurant.

It then proceeded to scare the living crap out of us, landing out of nowhere on the hood of the car when we were leaving to take a drive around the ranch. It tried to get into the back seat through the open passenger window, and scratched my neck when I opened the car door to put it outside.

They grow some pretty fierce kitties in Texas.

Cat's eye

I'm cat-sitting for a neighbor for a few weeks, and find it hard to believe that such beautiful eyes could belong to such a mischievous feline.