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Greek islands rap (tidley om pom pom)

July 21st, 2009 by callum · 1 Comment · Greece

anoth­er short rap for three people; Person no.1 Armargos, Alonnisos and Serifos

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TRAIN RAP (pom, pom, pom,)

July 21st, 2009 by callum · No Comments · Greece, trains

a short rap for three people or more ; Person no. 1 any refresh­ments, any refreshments

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Paris Gare de Bercy to Venezia Santa Lucia

July 21st, 2009 by jane · 2 Comments · Greece, trains, travel

After a 4 hour break­down (we were told 5 minutes 2 hours ago — no-one really knows what the prob­lem is) we’re mov­ing on through the edge of the Alps, past Lake Maggiore, towards Milan. The plus side of the delay is that we travel this sec­tion in day light, eat­ing our break­fast of pain au chocolat.

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It almost feels like we are on holiday already…

July 17th, 2009 by Chris · 9 Comments · Greece

…that was Callum’s com­ment when we arrived in Paris last night. Breakfast this morn­ing at the Place du Tertre in Montmartre, next to the Sacre Couer, in a phe­nom­en­ally expens­ive tour­ist cafe. You pay for the ambi­ence… Last night we ate felafel and pommes frites on the banks of the Seine and then exper­i­enced the most […]

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very nearly off…

July 15th, 2009 by jane · 3 Comments · Greece, Uncategorized

Tua Mia’s pass­port has arrived, he is get­ting very excited and we’re not sure if he will sleep tonight!

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Resources

July 13th, 2009 by Chris · 1 Comment · Greece, resources, trains, travel

I’m going to note here some of the resources we’ve found use­ful in plan­ning the trip. Firstly I have to men­tion the remark­able Man in Seat Sixty-One web­site. This is run by Mark Smith, an indi­vidu­al rail travel enthu­si­ast, who has col­lec­ted togeth­er an enorm­ous amount of help­ful inform­a­tion about trav­el­ling by rail in Europe (and […]

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a few random things that you should definitely NOT take on a journey like the one we’re going on! (phew, long title)

July 13th, 2009 by callum · 6 Comments · Greece, Uncategorized

rab­bit* cartie** non col­lapsible pad­dling pool sofa*** com­puter**** a tree****** *unless you’re trav­el­ling to get to a fam­ous greek vet or pet shop **cartie — home made go cart ***so you can have a sit down whenev­er you want ****we’re not tak­ing any sort of com­puter***** if you do take a laptop not a old desktop com­puter with a huge monitor […]

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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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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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