My Hovercraft is Full of Eels

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

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Portland!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)

July 18th, 2011 by callum · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

Two days ago me and Chris took the plane to Portland, Oregon and Jane went to Ashville, North Carolina. During the 4 1⁄2 hour flight, the in-flight shop­ping magazine made up for the poor enter­tain­ment. It had everything from fake plastic rocks to mas­sage chairs and tow­el warm­ers! Portland is great and has way bet­ter food than […]

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Two hours in Atlanta Georgia

July 16th, 2011 by jane · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

My flight onto Asheville, North Carolina is delayed because the crew has­n’t arrived yet, and then a big thun­der storm hit, and light­en­ing strikes inside the air­port com­pound means that no planes are mov­ing for a while. A good while. I’m sit­ting here enjoy­ing hear­ing the sweet drawl of the Southern accents and see­ing Black faces […]

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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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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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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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