Here are another couple photos from Manfred. The church is the same one we have published before. This time the planet Venus is showing.

The second is the Aliki beach and harbour using a filter. I think that is one of his boys running. They also are familiars in our photos over the past few years.

I like statistics: The number of seats offered on flights operating this month (July) has reached an all-time high, with a capacity of 309.7 million seats worldwide – equivalent to an airline seat for the entire population of the United States.

According to the latest statistics from the Official Airline Guide, this represents 19.9 million extra seats (a 7% increase) available to travellers compared with the same month last year.

The number of flights for July 2007 has increased by an additional 129,373, a rise of 5% year on year. A total of 2.6 million flights are timetabled this month, topping the previous industry high of 2.51 million reported for May 2007, and up from 2.47 million for July 2006.

To me it is hard to imagine that many people on the move.

An interesting bit of news: Greece and Turkey on Thursday agreed to exchange electricity power. The two countries aim to complete all interconnection projects of their electricity grids by January 2008 (using the Philippi-Babaeski 400 KV line).

The Turkish Minister said: "The line expands in 268 km carrying electricity power of 137 KV to Greece by the end of July or early August. Our relations with Greece are very good with new projects constantly emerging. We will be able to receive electricity power from Greece as well".

To me this indicates more of what goes on in everyday life between countries than the attention seeking politicians and the sensation seeking news media. There is no room for animosity in buying and selling.