write a story that has the same number of chapters as stations you go through. As soon as you stop at a station you have to start a new chapter. eat a sandwich by taking a bite whenever you pass a hill.
Entries Tagged as 'Greece'
Callum’s list of things to do on a boring lllllllllooooonnnnngggg distance train
June 26th, 2009 by callum · 3 Comments · Greece, trains
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Getting on board
June 21st, 2009 by jane · 6 Comments · Greece, trains
I’ve just been to see The Age of Stupid, a very hard hitting film about climate change. It’s left me wondering, yet again, how we manage to change attitudes, and fast. I want people to read our blog here and be inspired to not fly and to go for that big train ride adventure once […]
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Train tracks calling
June 18th, 2009 by jane · 3 Comments · Greece, trains
We don’t have a car and we haven’t flown for 8 years (except when I went to Shetland for work in November, and again in May :)) We use trains a lot. I mean a lot. But I haven’t done a grand European train voyage for years. In the summer of 1989, having spent a week on […]
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Sleeper trains
June 18th, 2009 by callum · 4 Comments · Greece, haha
I’ve always wanted to sleep on a train but I don’t really like courgettes!!!! ” ←my logo on a blog! DO I REALLY HAVE TO EAT COURGETTES?????!!!!! WHY I WANT TO SLEEP ON A TRAIN: I am looking forward to waking up in Venice! I am looking forward to sleeping in a triple decker bunk! (it’s not […]
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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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WARNING this blog does not have anything to do with hovercrafts or eels!
May 21st, 2009 by callum · 4 Comments · Greece, haha
The Hungarian Phrasebook sketch from Monty Python’s Flying Circus Set: A tobacconist’s shop. Text on screen: In 1970, the British Empire lay in ruins, and foreign nationalists frequented the streets — many of them Hungarians (not the streets — the foreign nationals). Anyway, many of these Hungarians went into tobacconist’s shops to buy cigarettes…
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