My Hovercraft is Full of Eels

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

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Update from Kerry

July 24th, 2009 by chris · 3 Comments · Greece

On the ferry to Paros and Athena and Callum are eati­ung bread and play­ing the Callum/Athena express. Two days into our Greek Odyssey and we have packed in so much already.

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It almost feels like we are on holiday already…

July 17th, 2009 by chris · 9 Comments · Greece

…that was Callum’s com­ment when we arrived in Paris last night. Breakfast this morn­ing at the Place du Tertre in Montmartre, next to the Sacre Couer, in a phe­nom­en­ally expens­ive tour­ist cafe. You pay for the ambi­ence… Last night we ate felafel and pommes frites on the banks of the Seine and then exper­i­enced the most […]

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Resources

July 13th, 2009 by chris · 1 Comment · Greece, resources, trains, travel

I’m going to note here some of the resources we’ve found use­ful in plan­ning the trip. Firstly I have to men­tion the remark­able Man in Seat Sixty-One web­site. This is run by Mark Smith, an indi­vidu­al rail travel enthu­si­ast, who has col­lec­ted togeth­er an enorm­ous amount of help­ful inform­a­tion about trav­el­ling by rail in Europe (and […]

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Travel update

July 12th, 2009 by chris · 6 Comments · Greece, islands, travel

Only four days to go! Packing has star­ted, camp­ing stuff is being gone through, Chris is get­ting frac­tious… Our latest itin­er­ary is on the site — but have no doubt that this will con­tin­ue to evolve as we pro­gress. The latest plan is that we will leave Athens for Paros on Wednesday 22nd, and we’ll camp on […]

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Is it really greener to fly?

June 28th, 2009 by chris · 2 Comments · climate change, flights, trains

Until the oth­er week, I’d assumed that it was com­pletely clear that fly­ing (par­tic­u­larly long-haul, but all fly­ing to some extent) was a really Bad Thing in terms of its con­tri­bu­tion to cli­mate change. I’ve not stud­ied the cli­mate change sci­ence in much detail, but I con­stantly hear from those who have that fly­ing is […]

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How it started

June 17th, 2009 by chris · 1 Comment · Greece, Uncategorized

For the past few years we’ve had our sum­mer hol­i­days on the idyll­ic Isle of Muck in the Small Isles off the west of Scotland (map). The sea may look like the Mediterranean but, believe me, it’s much more bra­cing. With our dear friends Kerry and Athena (and our oth­er dear friends Chris, Angeni,  Michele, […]

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New header photo

May 21st, 2009 by chris · No Comments · Greece, photos

The pic in the head­er is a view of Agios Dimitrios on Alonissos (photo by Rupert Brun, from Flickr).

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