[ 12:34 monday 29 august - myrtos, crete ] seated atop a wall in the shade of a lemon tree. barren scrubby hillsides ring the horizon around me. i’m waiting for the bus to ierapetra. who knows when it will come. doves coo assertively in counterpoint with the dry scrape of cicadas. an occasional cock-crow [...]
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[ 21:15 thursday 25 august - irakleo, crete ] i’m sitting by a busy roundabout whilst sardines are grilled on a brazier in front of me. how good is that! so, i made it to crete. my dawn bus from methoni to kalamata was half an hour late which meant i missed my planned connections. [...]
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[ 23:10 monday 22 august - methoni, greece ] rather than going straight to piraeus i decided to stay saturday night in athens. after dumping my chattels in an hotel i ate on a street terrace half way up the acropolis. the lights of athens glittered pleasingly below, particularly after several glasses of pungent retsina. [...]
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[ 01:20 saturday 20 august - shipton street, london ] for several weeks the need to escape has been bubbling up inside me. i’m getting stale. on ferragosto (the fifteenth of august) gabriele phoned to tell me he was going to the island of linosa, a rock in the middle of the sea between sicily [...]
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