My Hovercraft is Full of Eels

To Greece by train - and other journeys of the mind, body and soul

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Hi there! :o)

July 29th, 2011 by callum · 2 Comments · food, haha, islands, travel, USA

Hi! I’m in seattle right now and we will be get­ting on the plane in about four hours so I thought i had bet­ter write about what we’ve been doing. Jane arrived in Portland last Friday and she was very impressed by Helsers (break­fast cafe) and Powells (the biggest ofline book­shop in the world!). Then we […]

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Portland!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)

July 18th, 2011 by callum · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

Two days ago me and Chris took the plane to Portland, Oregon and Jane went to Ashville, North Carolina. During the 4 1⁄2 hour flight, the in-flight shop­ping magazine made up for the poor enter­tain­ment. It had everything from fake plastic rocks to mas­sage chairs and tow­el warm­ers! Portland is great and has way bet­ter food than […]

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Camping @ Lake Michigan

July 17th, 2011 by callum · 1 Comment · food, islands, travel, USA

When we got to the the camp­site, the first thing I saw was a chip­munk! Please see my last post for some pho­tos. The next day (after eat­ing some highly colored break­fast cer­eal) we went to Big Sable* Point light­house on the edge of lake Michigan and walked along the beach to find a swimming […]

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kyoot!!!!

July 17th, 2011 by callum · 3 Comments · food, photos, USA

At the camp­site we’ve been stay­ing at there are loads of chip­munks! The people on the site next to us thought I was crazy think­ing they were cute because they’re a pest here. here are some pic­tures of chip­munks that I took using pea­nut but­ter as bait. YouTube

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what we’ve been doing

July 11th, 2011 by callum · 6 Comments · flights, food, trains, travel, USA

first we got a taxi to Edinburgh air­port and then we took a tiny pro­peller plane (which kept doing pro­peller exer­cises before going on to the run­way) to Dublin. this is the plane that we went on Then we had to go through secur­ity again and they threw away a bottle of water that I had […]

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we r going 2 AMERICA!!!!!!!

June 29th, 2011 by callum · 3 Comments · travel

We are all going to America for 3 weeks from the 6th of July. i’ts all very excit­ing but.… we’re fly­ing 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 any­way, we will be writ­ing about what we r doing on this blog so look out for some new posts com­ing up soon!!!

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Worries.….….….….….… =(

August 3rd, 2009 by callum · 2 Comments · Greece

Chris is wor­ried that Jane might buy a water­mel­on to eat on the train. Jane is wor­ried that Chris will have his purse stolen. Callum is wor­ried that he will get cock­roaches in his san­dals cos his feet are so dirty.

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Food for a 2‑day train journey

August 3rd, 2009 by callum · 4 Comments · food, Greece, trains, travel

2  Spinopitas 1 Tiropita 13 Oranges 7 Bottles of water 4 Large toma­toes 2 Cucumbers

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Da greek animals song

August 1st, 2009 by callum · 3 Comments · Greece

Da, doo, da, donk, donk, don­key, Da, doo, da, donk, donk, don­key, Da, doo, da, donk, donk, don­key, Unda da olive tree

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Callum’s Coments! (on Greece)

July 24th, 2009 by callum · No Comments · Greece

!1. The icy cream is YYYUUUMMMYYY!!! and it comes in lots of dif­fer­ent flavours* **

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