Saturday 23 April, 11 am, at the convention We’re about to have a guest speaker, and I’m not sure whether they’ll be speaking in English or Greek, so this seems like a good opportunity to catch up a bit. So, after Zeus’s temple we wanted to try and find the Lykia where Aristotle taught. It…
Friday 22 April Another long and super busy day. Last night, of course, was the pre-convention dinner. We made it there only a few minutes late (at the expense of not having had time to go home and get cleaned up and changed first, as we’d hoped to), and quickly spotted the other bookcrossers. Of…
Thursday 21 April 2016, 3 pm, Athens In a seafood restaurant, having just gorged on greek salad, boiled wild greens, eggplant dip, fried zucchini, squid, sardines, mussels… just a light lunch 🙂 We’ve been on the go all day, so I still haven’t managed to sit down and write. But, briefly back to the story…
Tuesday 19 April 2016, 10 pm (Bangkok time) – somewhere over Indonesia, three hours from Bangkok I woke up from a half-sleep just in time to see one of the islands of Indonesia below us. It’s pitch dark, of course (according to the flight info screen thing, it’s 11 pm locally), but the islands are…
Got home this afternoon after 30-odd hours spent on planes and in airports. I’m incredibly tired, but attempting to stay awake at least until dark, to ward off the worst of the jet lag. Italy was amazing (as was Greece, but I think I already posted to say that 🙂 ) and we had so…
Having an amazing time in Athens too much food,not enough sleep, walking our feet off,and almost filled a memory card of photos already. such a gorgeous place (despite pickpockets and the fact that everyone smokes everywhere all the time). I’m discovering the value of a mathematical education for trying to decipher street signs, and I’ve…
Do do do do, do do do-do dooo… sorry, accidentally segued into bad 80s music there. But I’m all packed, the house is tidy, I’ve left a note for my house-sitter, and in an hour or so Lytteltonwitch will turn up and we’ll be off to the airport. And about 35 hours and 5 airports…