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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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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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Serifos

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

The camp­site is big and com­mer­cial, tents packed close togeth­er. There’s a swim­ming pool — the kids would spend the whole time there if we did­n’t drag them out to the beach! It’s much too hot to sleep in the tent, so Callum and I sleep on the beach under a tam­ar­isk tree, blas­ted by sand blown […]

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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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The wind is in from Africa

July 28th, 2009 by jane · 6 Comments · Greece

…and last night I could­n’t sleep… Callum and Chris slept on the beach here on Serifos last night cos it was so hot in the tent, even with both doors open, and I slept in the hot tent cos it was so windy down on the beach!!  Callum slept until 8.30 even whilst wild sand­storms raged […]

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A sacrificial option?

July 24th, 2009 by Chris · 2 Comments · Greece

When I first talked to our friend Rachael about our jour­ney a few months ago, she described it as a “sac­ri­fi­cial” action. Rather an inter­est­ing choice of words, I thought. “Sacrifice” these days tends to have unfor­tu­nate con­nota­tions of osten­ta­tious self-depriva­­tion, or empty ritual.

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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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Athens to Antiparos

July 24th, 2009 by jane · 2 Comments · Greece

We docked at Patras on time, found the sta­tion and with­in no time were tuck­ing into fresh greek bread, feta, olives and toma­toes from the loc­al shop, and a freddo (iced espresso — this sea­son’s trend­i­est drink!)  A well earned decent feast — food on the ferry was a bit sparce due to the pricey food on board and […]

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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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Minoan Lines Ferry

July 21st, 2009 by jane · 5 Comments · Greece

19th and 20th July Ancona to Patras So we’re now out in the Adriatic, hav­ing staked out our spot on the deck beside a young Swiss couple trav­el­ling over­land to Istanbul and a French fam­ily with 2 young kids. The Swiss couple are trav­el­ling with a large lily – a birth­day present from him to her! […]

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