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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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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To Kimolos

August 1st, 2009 by Chris · No Comments · Greece, islands

29th July Chalk and clay, astound­ing eroded rock form­a­tions. No camp­site here at all, but free camp­ing on the beach. Very much quieter here than the oth­er islands, and we are hav­ing to prac­tise our Greek.

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Camping Antiparos

August 1st, 2009 by Chris · No Comments · Greece, islands

A busy camp­site, but very relaxed atmo­sphere. People sit­ting play­ing chess and back­gam­mon, 1970s rock music play­ing in the cafe, five minutes to the (swim­ming cos­tumes def­in­itely option­al) beach.

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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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