The only place in "Europe" where total eclipse of the sun (100% coverage) took place was the small, picturesque Greek island of Kastelorizo (LGKJ) to the extreme south-east of the Aegean Sea. Even in nearby Rhodes coverage was "only" 98%, so not as spectacular.
The usual crowd of hundreds of spotters, eclipse-hunters, astronomers, various other scientists and tourists flooded the small place in anything that would get them there. Katamaran speedboats were summoned to take people there from Rhodes for the day and back, since there were not enough places to put eberyone up for the night.
Dozens of light aircraft from the small-but-faithful GA community in Greece flooded the small apron of the aircraft carrier-like airfiled on the rocky island. I was stuck working in Athens so I couldn't go
but lots of friends went and here's some nice pictures from some of them in a TB20.
http://hellasga.com/gallery/lgkj
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