Comments on: Journey Plan

By: chris

chris — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:52:58 +0000

Thanks for the warning, Astrid. We already had purses stolen on the Athen metro, so we are being hyper-vigilant Sorry we will not be stopping in Germany on this trip — we will see you another time I hope!

By: Astrid Hess

Astrid Hess — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:26:46 +0000

oh, I just saw your journey plan — you are going back via Austria, Munic, Paris, London. So obviously no chance to meet.
If you are in Bucharest you must see Ceausescu’s palace — then you will understand the term gigantomania. In Rumania pocket-picking is epidemic, btw. People are so poor, sometimes it is heartbreaking, esp. when you see the children.

By: jane

jane — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:09:42 +0000

Hi Beth — do you have a mobile for her? Mine is +447519582130 xx

By: beth

beth — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:10:01 +0000

Hey! my housemate Emily is in Budapest right now, she says she’s found some lovely thermal baths owned by the city. It would be so amazing if you could meet up, but she’s leaving for Belgrade and Sarajevo soon. She stayed in this hotel — Hotel Ibis, Raday Utca 6, Pest. I don’t know if she liked it, but if you need one there one is.

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By: chris

chris — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:22:37 +0000

Hah! You’re right enough. Must mind my metaphors (good Greek word!). How about “Many points are still to be set, but we hope to stay on track and avoid going off the rails”?

By: Alastair Cameron

Alastair Cameron — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:37:45 +0000

“Much still up in the air,” you say — what about all those nitrous oxides??! Get your decisions made straight away, for the sake of the environment…

By: Albert Beale

Albert Beale — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:27:42 +0000

Actually, the idea of your (not, as it happens) going through former Yugoslavia on the way reminds me that for the first time in very many years I had a genuinely appropriate opp0rtunity just the other day — in the context of a discussion at a book launch in Housmans — to do my party piece about the sub-dialectical variations of Serbo-Croat. A party piece which I fear you, Chris, must have had inflicted on you at some stage over the years I’ve known you…

By: Albert Beale

Albert Beale — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:22:54 +0000

No — my Patras-Brindisi journey was much earlier, in my student bumming-around-Europe-for-the-summer era.
The Israelis blowing up the “Ship of Return” (though I guess that’s about 20 years back now!) was luckily just before all the Palestinians and the journalists and the international solidarity activists got on board!
Still, I ended up spending 10 days in and around Athens courtesy of Middle Eastern oil revenues, with some quite interesting people…

By: chris

chris — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:57:25 +0000

That wasn’t the trip where the boat from Athens was bombed by the Israeli secret service was it? (Or have I completely made that up?)