My Hovercraft is Full of Eels

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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…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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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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!1. The icy cream is YYYUUUMMMYYY!!! and it comes in lots of dif­fer­ent flavours* **

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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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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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19^th and 20^th 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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