My Hovercraft is Full of Eels

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

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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

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.

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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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