tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74028924579693377802024-03-14T14:53:47.674+00:00Nikos Worldfeaturing loads of keftedesNikoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119901226987582553noreply@blogger.comBlogger539125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7402892457969337780.post-109659948140253152021-04-29T09:42:00.000+01:002021-04-29T09:43:25.468+01:00Controlling the Machine.<p> The following post is adapted from an article published in the PEMC magazine.</p><p></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Controlling the
Machine: Two days of i2i training.</span></i></b></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv7FKAX2CHhSgJdE0zn-yIPRGdkHwER6f1Yq91m4920VKeMBdOcRJiuy_vpZdN_MdMBamJcmHAv7mK-MOHcQ_FnG-LZMRk2RXAZdKfuUOdJ7lJ8xwOf8vGj76VRTwOwu1TWpHxMHyMKfN6/s2048/1+Tom+greeting.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv7FKAX2CHhSgJdE0zn-yIPRGdkHwER6f1Yq91m4920VKeMBdOcRJiuy_vpZdN_MdMBamJcmHAv7mK-MOHcQ_FnG-LZMRk2RXAZdKfuUOdJ7lJ8xwOf8vGj76VRTwOwu1TWpHxMHyMKfN6/w397-h298/1+Tom+greeting.jpg" width="397" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We meet Tom the instructor at the airfield cafeteria for early morning craic.</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />I completed my Advanced
Motorcycling test with a local IAM group some years ago and became
confident that in the cases of shoulder checks, road positioning and
frequent debriefing stops for coffee I had mastered this motorcycling
thing. However lingering doubts remained that I was actually in full
control of the machine, these doubts being fuelled by almost
obsessional interest in internet self help with such topics as push
steering, U turning a Harley on a dime, counter weighting, trail
braking and necessary knee down techniques. It was therefore with
much relief that I stumbled across the i2i Motorcycle Academy with
promises such as the transformation of my riding and the mastering of
U turns even two up.</p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy6X_8HpcELELwZC57itPyVAYzipB4LrIHvnqE9jTra8UmSdc1O62PtA74R_B3c1lAYD4boVyFXvYnYTq8ZoEkZdkP4Q5nsN_ugTURA9mk9VP2q0eJCrN8oy2moOJiMwFLdJ4ElY-Ybpat/s2048/2+anyone+for+a+fright.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1155" data-original-width="2048" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy6X_8HpcELELwZC57itPyVAYzipB4LrIHvnqE9jTra8UmSdc1O62PtA74R_B3c1lAYD4boVyFXvYnYTq8ZoEkZdkP4Q5nsN_ugTURA9mk9VP2q0eJCrN8oy2moOJiMwFLdJ4ElY-Ybpat/w405-h228/2+anyone+for+a+fright.jpg" width="405" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rufforth airfield is an active microlight and gyrocopter centre.</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />I booked on two
consecutive events held over a weekend at Rufforth Airfield near York
last August, Machine Control 1 and 2 (MC1 and MC2). Other venues were
available.</p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOkKpp3h1v5hjyzQb3XeO28QwSHST7CkVlHh403Uj_rwQFQKCjmWoBIrv7oV3xcSRk2HNGGQqGmifVvl88Jh19khWsi66OIBWHDm6VYF1rFhw5eXi9kbJcwl_KUpCQHIt_5nAAZI24xHLo/s2048/3+at+the+crash+gate.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1155" data-original-width="2048" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOkKpp3h1v5hjyzQb3XeO28QwSHST7CkVlHh403Uj_rwQFQKCjmWoBIrv7oV3xcSRk2HNGGQqGmifVvl88Jh19khWsi66OIBWHDm6VYF1rFhw5eXi9kbJcwl_KUpCQHIt_5nAAZI24xHLo/w422-h237/3+at+the+crash+gate.jpg" width="422" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Admission to the airfield is through the crash gate....</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />On a sunny Saturday in
August a diverse group of riders on machines ranging from Sports
bikes through to Pan Europeans bikes gatherered at the Gyrocopter
Experience control tower cafe at Rufforth Airfield. Tom, our
instructor greeted us, invited us for a free coffee, told us to
preorder lunch and took us through the crash gate (aviation jargon,
sorry) on a ride across the airfield to the training area where his
van was set up.
</p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5UqquacHbEHXonkmt5huRydgGP-DAYQRspUyNBbAvdWVQjpjv7GY7rxE0f_uFQoIj6FjmHgr-QpksQE4p-DN6379Yy_ybXdOm53k1mrwzxnoKII4fMPRAukZ_itzYGE_M78yLvfA1abW2/s2048/4+Tom+explains.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5UqquacHbEHXonkmt5huRydgGP-DAYQRspUyNBbAvdWVQjpjv7GY7rxE0f_uFQoIj6FjmHgr-QpksQE4p-DN6379Yy_ybXdOm53k1mrwzxnoKII4fMPRAukZ_itzYGE_M78yLvfA1abW2/w407-h305/4+Tom+explains.jpg" width="407" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tom explains gyroscopes and stability and how the average rider messes it all up.</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />The day was broken up
with a series of progressive sections comprising a briefing by Tom,
followed by a demonstration given on his Street Triple and then our
exercises. Tom, an Irishman whose craic is characteristicly and
variously stimulating and witty, explains the neccessary physics
simply, and majors on debunking common misconceptions and has us all
in stitches. He then hops on his Street Triple and shows us that the
bike is steered neither by looking where you want to go, nor by
weighting a peg or pushing down on the bars.
</p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxw96C_cssYqEhN8utR5Q_MsX-GtW_pB_CBPl-tZGHLphSUl0LSDUQLQKXIpqvFC-chJLyrARHjcZq01eSeYGb_pmoZw2J9u6f6bziiPE6jUfpYzL3sktDj0CUT-mE1XFF82omxEbbtRUo/s2048/tomeyesteering.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1771" data-original-width="2048" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxw96C_cssYqEhN8utR5Q_MsX-GtW_pB_CBPl-tZGHLphSUl0LSDUQLQKXIpqvFC-chJLyrARHjcZq01eSeYGb_pmoZw2J9u6f6bziiPE6jUfpYzL3sktDj0CUT-mE1XFF82omxEbbtRUo/w413-h358/tomeyesteering.jpg" width="413" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tom travels past at 30mph and demos that you cannot steer by looking.</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />Many of the exercises
were carried out one handed, a key point being to engage the „core“,
Pilates fashion. Tom points out that the bike has at least two
gyroscopes built in and without rider intervention performs
brilliantly straight and in banked turns and does not fall over.</p>
<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-EATw-tjVgEpyNTNDtEZpt-K8NbfAWQOBjRwbV3nEXZrilXGiFMSeOS7vWsEhjXgQrBhMARNq0RMMsyHLXquVgA6Ords9YdhJI5LulM3Waxw9v6D2x_OzXodnNCqnnSXBRQm2P9TQ003s/s2048/IMG_20200808_104636_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-EATw-tjVgEpyNTNDtEZpt-K8NbfAWQOBjRwbV3nEXZrilXGiFMSeOS7vWsEhjXgQrBhMARNq0RMMsyHLXquVgA6Ords9YdhJI5LulM3Waxw9v6D2x_OzXodnNCqnnSXBRQm2P9TQ003s/w427-h320/IMG_20200808_104636_1.jpg" width="427" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Man on two gyroscopes not precessing at all at all.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjThFx6Cw4NPnRqHbrqtOe7RakzhVqxqNf4Eiigo-vqN4dqrl8qnVAMfCkaJVoYtUAkbIsya1ClW_y587NdtDHOryIE_F_imGLL5SXR_VnrgOpiSdpVx4LqSLyhwJOfsoWB0ONlbFTHzjRK/s2048/6+waiting+for+our+turn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjThFx6Cw4NPnRqHbrqtOe7RakzhVqxqNf4Eiigo-vqN4dqrl8qnVAMfCkaJVoYtUAkbIsya1ClW_y587NdtDHOryIE_F_imGLL5SXR_VnrgOpiSdpVx4LqSLyhwJOfsoWB0ONlbFTHzjRK/w397-h298/6+waiting+for+our+turn.jpg" width="397" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It´s not all about Tom...We are given exercises to perform, and here we are waiting our turn.</td></tr></tbody></table></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The day of MC1 is
completed when we U turn at full lock without touching the brakes,
throttle or clutch. We do however look where we want to go.</p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNTUD1zFmqhD0FRqW2JNpeHpq5L7hfhgu_SS9WRqPOoHhFl5tjEyyXV8AWf0-ZIlzh0ethrA_pY_C4mGt6PeS-4JSvwORX14FQmNN9O_ymxRB8aBrO4ziakO1ksxlKth4u3mBx55x5P08g/s2048/7+pee+break.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNTUD1zFmqhD0FRqW2JNpeHpq5L7hfhgu_SS9WRqPOoHhFl5tjEyyXV8AWf0-ZIlzh0ethrA_pY_C4mGt6PeS-4JSvwORX14FQmNN9O_ymxRB8aBrO4ziakO1ksxlKth4u3mBx55x5P08g/s320/7+pee+break.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pee break.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">I elected to do MC 2
directly after MC1, but on Sunday quite a few new riders appeared
having completed MC1 some time previously.</p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6DROgTo_-cYqMPqf2mxzbf82ZkYGaVeO8YRNy5EOo2qEpgQfyeXPzLGVxDyAwhOwoLRLkiqQ4FO1tDNlxBQIZi8EusG7VtLro0pZZyTWqW76i7euf-NpNGrikod40vPxxNq1V8EaSa02I/s2048/IMG_20200808_133804.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6DROgTo_-cYqMPqf2mxzbf82ZkYGaVeO8YRNy5EOo2qEpgQfyeXPzLGVxDyAwhOwoLRLkiqQ4FO1tDNlxBQIZi8EusG7VtLro0pZZyTWqW76i7euf-NpNGrikod40vPxxNq1V8EaSa02I/w412-h309/IMG_20200808_133804.jpg" width="412" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Demonstration of how useless the rear brake can be.</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The emphasis in MC2 was
on braking without drama including in bends, including back braking
with power on....good for pillions apparently because the rear jacks
up. Bad for the brakes which could catch fire.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8jNj-uVJ6hBDf9e1k-cbqqJhKiDVLikjyOBsZyZpEmR5OwLillGtdWrxVYXhmQk3CTPObDL-SYnvJPtXcPFFroZh-8UkMhiQz6_nuBP8h_1NhbehxfcJZi2IOJxLELagkPPSh04x92Sqk/s2048/IMG_20200809_110350.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8jNj-uVJ6hBDf9e1k-cbqqJhKiDVLikjyOBsZyZpEmR5OwLillGtdWrxVYXhmQk3CTPObDL-SYnvJPtXcPFFroZh-8UkMhiQz6_nuBP8h_1NhbehxfcJZi2IOJxLELagkPPSh04x92Sqk/w399-h299/IMG_20200809_110350.jpg" width="399" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another cosy chat and a view of the practice area.</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />The Sunday contained
more drama: One of the sports bikes ended up in the adjacent corn
field and Tom rides the (rather elderly) Pan European at extreme
angles because the rider complained about the handling. Shot front
wheel bearings and uneven tyre wear were diagnosed. The Pan had never
been ridden like that before...</p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ0eQZFnsD96OMVwwDLHbl1oGA_iAF05U0xbhftjNO2I8QopQTvhv0k819SqWINIpHlo_G5H2HvErqtW5je4lHcCvzLo2hYOmlCk77xIPvKsQVsHlXwEB0Cp0I_bC_XZa5OHpmuyzwIR57/s2048/8+Toms+office.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ0eQZFnsD96OMVwwDLHbl1oGA_iAF05U0xbhftjNO2I8QopQTvhv0k819SqWINIpHlo_G5H2HvErqtW5je4lHcCvzLo2hYOmlCk77xIPvKsQVsHlXwEB0Cp0I_bC_XZa5OHpmuyzwIR57/w396-h297/8+Toms+office.jpg" width="396" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The mobile office and the end of the weekend. I´m on my way the ferry port.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">All in all a worthwhile
and confidence giving weekend for all levels of experience. The next
step is MC3 Knee Down , but as I have difficuty in getting my leg
over I´ll pass on that one. The i2i academy is owned managed and run
by the husband and wife team of Tom and Emma Killeen. Tom is
developing some YouTube material this year and this should give you
some idea of his style. Check it out!</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Action scene! </span></i></b></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Braking and cornering:</b></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><i></i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='411' height='342' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dziS22HXjoF6cU_LPBaGYdNDe6Y0kac7Ys4LilmCIwxdkANMS79xyxFVKoJsg2ye3FO_HcVPK15CB5bMwqyzA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></i></b></div><b><i><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b><p></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><br /><p></p>Nikoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119901226987582553noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7402892457969337780.post-88916876884657639432021-04-28T19:43:00.001+01:002021-04-28T19:46:42.041+01:00poke menu 01052021<p> </p><div><span style="font-family: "AR CHRISTY"; 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font-size: 24.5994pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Glutenfrei Kuchen </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.95pt;">2,90 € </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.95pt;">Verschiedene zur Verfügung, bitte fragen Sie. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: "AR CHRISTY"; font-size: 24.5994pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Getränke </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.95pt;">Cappuccino/Latte Macciato/Milch Kaffee </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.95pt;">3,10 € </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.95pt;">Espresso </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.95pt;">1,90 € </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.95pt;">Americano/Schwarze Kaffee </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.95pt;">2,50 € </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.95pt;">Heisse Tee </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.95pt;">2,00 € </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.95pt;">Heisse Schokolade </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.95pt;">2,90 € </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.95pt;">Coke/Fanta usw </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.95pt;">2,90 € </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.95pt;">Wasser </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.95pt;">2,00 € </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.95pt; font-style: italic;">Allergie Information! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 6pt;">(§) Nuss (Sesam, Erdnuss) Gluten, Soja </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 6pt;">(§§) Nuss (Sesam) Gluten, Soja </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 6pt;">(§§§) Nuss (Sesam) Gluten, Soja </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: italic;">LAKTOSEFREIE MILCH ERHÄLTLICH </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.95pt;">v 01.05</span></div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p>Nikoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119901226987582553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7402892457969337780.post-80964474588252161392019-01-02T11:27:00.002+00:002019-01-03T20:05:32.682+00:00Balkan Bumblings 2018<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">May 2018 - a road trip through Serbia to Greece and back through Albania and Italy.</span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Serbia, Danube River Novi Sad taken from Petrovaradin where we stayed in the majestic Hotel Leopold along with a badminton team from Istanbul</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Danube by day </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Novi Sad </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="caption-text-content" id="automationImageDescription" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Statue of Jaša Tomic, politician, publicist, journalist,with notorious itchy nose on Dunavska street</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Someone else is doing the driving....south to Thessaloniki</td></tr>
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Now in Greece.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Greek Merperson, our friend painted this.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nice in May, the dandelions are about to spawn</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Down at Astros harbour</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A revisit to Spetses Island some decades on...I wish we hadn't</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old mansion in Spetses town - only nice bit.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mountains near Astros - Grom and BMW overland adventures - we ride through a monastery</td></tr>
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Due to a strike by Greek border officials we had to leave 2 days earlier than planned and so our stop in Albania was prolonged.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Homeward bound in Albania - I didn't milk our friends cow.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Durres port - ferry to Bari, Italy - looks like a giant tank landing craft: Adria Line A/F Marina.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Further to an overnight stop at Belinzona we get stuck at Gt. St Bernard Tunnel ...</td></tr>
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Nikoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119901226987582553noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7402892457969337780.post-27730690673678114522016-11-15T12:20:00.003+00:002016-11-15T12:22:37.167+00:00Game of Fours<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "open sans";">A fellow but competent blogger tagged me in a </span><a href="http://thefrozencanuck.blogspot.de/2016/11/game-of-4s.html" style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; font-family: "Open Sans"; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Game of 4's</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "open sans";">: a challenge in which 4 questions are provided, to be answered by 4 answers, and then to nominate 4 other bloggers (or vloggers). Thank you, Sonja for providing a most welcome distraction from growing old and moving house and cleaning filthy gas cookers.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Open Sans";" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Open Sans";" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "open sans";">The Questions are:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Open Sans";" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "open sans";">1. What is your favourite food?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Open Sans";" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "open sans";">2. What are your favourite drinks?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Open Sans";" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "open sans";">3. Places you've been?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Open Sans";" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "open sans";">4. Names that you're known by?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Oi you</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The bottomless pit</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">As virtually no one reads my blog I can safely nominate:</span><br />
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<a href="http://goingfastgettingnowhere.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Retired Blogger Richard from Yorkshire</a><br />
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<a href="https://ourheartson2wheels.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">The very lovely gluten free cook on 2 wheels</a><br />
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<a href="https://63mago.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">A cultured musical Franconian</a><br />
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Nikoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119901226987582553noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7402892457969337780.post-72932195771549354352016-11-06T18:08:00.001+00:002016-11-06T18:08:36.799+00:00Post Brexit North Sea OCD<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i>July 2016</i>: Given the depressing news of 23rd June 2016, I can't keep away from escape routes to the continent.<br />
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A short tour of Suffolk took me to Harwich and a ferry trip to Hook of Holland enroute to Brake on the Wese.<br />
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I travelled initially with the pensioners motorcycle club. We stayed at the unimpressive Brome Grange Hotel IP23 8AP.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Somewhere east of Ipswich - a liitle excursion to the River Deben...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">and the Ramsholt Arms for lunch</td></tr>
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A day later after drying off my clothes following the torrential downpour on the journey back from the Ramsholt Arms to the hotel, I headed to the continent to try out Stena Lines super cruise booze ferry service Harwich to Hook of Holland<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A short evening flit to Harwich and some Garmin mis direction later I arrive in time for the evening departure of the Stena Hollandica</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Motorcycles accomodated on the main car deck.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Decent size inside cabin</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Useful TV with charting of route on channel 23, and</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">meanwhile on channel K9p, a view of the kennels!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking back at blighty. I check later what SCR means - Selective Catalytic Reduction - a technology ignored by Volkswagen</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking forward to Hook of Holland </td></tr>
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Egress from the Hollandica was straightforward and onward travel to Brake am Wese hindered only by a Garmin gps lock up and manual navigation around Amsterdam. The Garmin whilst displaying a map and route started counting distance backwards showing my destination receding...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I went fresh and drank my capuciino al fresco in the drizzle</td></tr>
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No sooner had I arrived in Wese upthe Brake or whatever, Mrs N. decided that we should spend some time on an island in the German Bight. I had just read Erskine Childers classic <span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>The riddle of the sands a</i>nd seen the corresponding movie<i> </i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bei_Nacht_und_Nebel" target="_blank">Bei Nacht und Nebel</a></i> with the lovely Jenny von Agutte</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">r so was keen too</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.</b> Due to the short notice and lack of pre planning we could not go to a nice island so went to Helgoland instead. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At Cuxhaven we just missed the slow boat so Mrs N secures the last 2 places on the jet service</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We have waiting time to explore the Cuxhaven dockside accoutrements.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Invaluable wind information for vessels headed for Bremerhaven.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I am comforted that the Limassol registered vessel has a Greek (Cypriot) style boarding routine</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I was told off for saying moin moin.</td></tr>
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On arrival at Cuxhaven we decided to explore the dockland area where we had eaten some years ago.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cuxhaven - Sea food restaurant revisited - sadly in its last year as the owners are retiring</td></tr>
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Further to sea food (rather a lot) we explored the beach side area where Mrs N had stayed some years ago.<br />
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This is Mrs N's home from home at Brake. Bicycles are complimentary.<br />
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Nikoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119901226987582553noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7402892457969337780.post-33189159816451630892016-09-10T09:06:00.001+01:002016-09-11T21:33:53.552+01:00Going Nadgery up Offa's Dyke<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Greetings!<br />
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First off what does nadgery mean? It seems that to nadger is to (quoting some spurious internet source) "<i>Of software or hardware (not people), to twiddle some object in a hidden
manner, generally so that it conforms better to some format. For
instance, string printing routines on 8-bit processors often take the
string text from the instruction stream, thus a print call looks like
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jsr print:"Hello world"
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The print routine has to "nadger" the saved instruction pointer so that the processor doesn't try to execute the text as instructions when the subroutine returns."</i><br />
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Secondly what and where is Offas Dyke? <i></i><br />
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<i>It's a sort of ditch built along the Welsh / English border for 177 miles in the 8th
Century by the then parody of Donald Trump, Offa Dump to protect from raids on Mercia from Powys. Offa's Dyke is now classified as a National Trail and takes one through changing
landscapes offering amazing opportunities to catch a view of native
wildlife and Welsh people. In practice the dyke looks like this in cross section:</i><br />
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And the point of all this is?<br />
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Back in June, Martin organised a motorcycle excursion over 2 days to follow the route of Offas Dyke as closely as possible. He sent us all a route named "nadgery" as well as a non nadgery version.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I was expecting to see this.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the complete dyke</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I joined what was remaining of the group on Saturday night at Montgomery - I therefore completed the nadgery ride north to the Welsh coast at Prestatyn</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Montgomery - The Dragon Hotel - I rode down from Knutsford to meet up with he main group who had started earlier from Chepstow. We stayed here and started off early Sunday morning</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Montgomery - border outpost town</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from the garret - beautiful countryside</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some old blokes having a nadgery off road adventure, but only just</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Horsehoe Pass, the Ponderosa cafe</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The end of the road at Prestatyn</td></tr>
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Despite spending most of the holidays sitting around drinking iced coffee and looking at our android devices, we did more stuff:-<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Famous for aubergines, we drive south to Leonidio <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonidio" target="_blank"><span lang="el">Λεωνίδιο</span></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Multi-level splendour from the 1800s</td></tr>
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Our guide was a local lady who forewent her siesta to show us the house in extreme detail.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Girl holding spear and aubergine with face painted on ?</td></tr>
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Following the house visit we were summoned to the local museum for a private viewing. This is housed in a building that originally contained the first electric power station in Greece.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Local non Taskonian <strike>dancing </strike>foolery....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We drink a toast of local aubergine liquer (?) with our museum guides!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A recommended fish taverna at Aghios Andreas</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A grass hopper</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Worse than vodka, our friend Manolis serves home made tsiporo...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Manolis explains what the local mountain herbs are and what they do to one</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I have always wondered where this road leads to...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">table under tree miles from anywhere</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the end of a long track there once was a waterfall, now replaced by an information board</td></tr>
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Visit to Athens<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...and don't fall off</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Impossible to get lost down town</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We stay by the coast</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">BSA</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mounted Athenian cavalry cops - soon to be seen in London</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We walk through the National Gardens</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All the "news! at Syntagma square</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So it's goodbye from me</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Driving back to the village we see smoke - another forest fire</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Canadair fire bomber to the rescue</td></tr>
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Nikoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119901226987582553noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7402892457969337780.post-75368985624657982872016-08-02T10:36:00.002+01:002016-08-11T09:48:25.185+01:00Tι κάναμε - Stuff we did on holiday part 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We did various stuff as you can see:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Swimming and parking under a palm tree</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Welcome to a mythical destination</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Posing "gorgona"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Watching the weather man</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Admiring the view on the way down from the village</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Admiring Ducatis at Naplion on Sunday</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Strange people watching with a long lens</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Window shopping</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Talking to vegetables - thanks to our good friend we now have soem to converse with</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sitting around drinking with relations and friends and looking at our tablets</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wondering about Greek branding principles - Spam?</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Not that
I'm overly superstitious, but my Greek Granny never travelled on a Tuesday as
Constantinople fell twice on a Tuesday, first to the smelly old 4th crusade
Brexiters in 1204, and then in 1453 to Erdogan's forebears. These dates
where both on a 13th but I thought that a 31st day of the month would be safe
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So it
came to pass that we boarded the ANEK ferry Asterion a vessel previously
operated in the English channel under the name Norman Trader. ANEK have got
wise to keeping the old LD Lines name - this vessel is a sister ship of the ill-fated
Norman Atlantic*. It is also quite small and slow compared to what we thought
we had paid for.</span><br />
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tannoy system cannot be heard from with a cabin. We are also unable to
buy coffee because the ship cannot establish an internet link FFS! </span><br />
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Lines yellow paint on its way up to the top deck.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This is the second time that the fat Turkish
woman in the Silver Opel Zafira bumped her door into our car - Mrs N
intervenes when the ship docks to discharge at intermediate stop Igoumenitsa</span></div>
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all mixed up and grid locked.</span></div>
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travel on this ANEK lines ferry the Asterion which is badly organised and
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was a bleak day for Hellenism. However, Tuesday May 29, 1453, was even
worse, as Constantinople fell again, this time to the Ottoman Empire,
followed by almost 400 years of Ottoman rule across Greece. - See more
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As we departed Ancona life looked up in the restaurant</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Next morning we miss braekfast because the ship's tannoy system cannot be haerd from with a cabin. We are also unable to buy coffee because the ship cannot establis an internet link FFS!</td></tr>
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Nikoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119901226987582553noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7402892457969337780.post-63030388528371932012016-07-02T12:57:00.001+01:002016-08-11T09:48:44.789+01:00Journey to Greece via Merano <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We set off from Wiesbaden on time despite my advertised schedule. The first night stop would be at Goppingen followed by Merano On the third day we were to catch the ferry to Patras from Ancona.<br />
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The journey shape resembles the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassiopeia_(constellation)" target="_blank">constellation Cassiopeia</a>, who was the wife of king Cepheus of Æthiopia, was beautiful but also arrogant and vain; these latter two characteristics led to her downfall. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There is always <i>stau</i> at Sinsheim - I blame supersonic Tupolev spotters, football enthusiasts and people carrying bicycles on their cars.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We were however soothed by "music".</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flaming June barbeque scene 1: make shift <i><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="de"><span class="">Fallschirm gegen</span> Regen</span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flaming June barbeque scene 2: this weekend most of central Germany was washed away.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At least we tasted Britexit beer</td></tr>
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The next morning under clearing skies (there had been a mega storm overnight) we set off to Merano with aplanned lunch stop at a gluten free cafe at Augsburg.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We found the cafe but it's closed on Mondays!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first sight of mountains</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Romantische Strasse complete with tractors</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inevitably before Garmisch the rain started again - we head towards Austria and the Brenner pass.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A well engineered escape lane - there were 4 of these within 1km.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Even more lunatic than motorcycling in these conditions is the pastime of cycling.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I take a navigational chance and head for the Jaufen pass - this avoids a long motorway dog leg via Bolzano but the map is not clear whether the pass would be open in June</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The SS44 is the Jaufenstrasse which was indeed open</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scudding through the clouds just prior to the descent into Meran International</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Hotel Maya in Merano was actually the Guest House Maya in Sinigo, some 2 km out of town on the SP117. However it was above a good Italian restaurant and perfectly adequate for a one night stand (and we could park).</td></tr>
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The next morning, in characteristic fashion, the rain began to clear and we decided to spend the morning exploring Merano. This town appears to have been untouched by conflict but had changed hands between Bavaria and Italy after World war 1.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We parked underground adjacent to the thermal baths</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">We cross the Passer River on the 1617 built</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Too may slots and not enough exlpanation on the Autostarda pay booth</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Despite the screen, the ANEK Lines Asterion is running late - it's coming in from Venice</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Asterion appears throgh a hole in the cloud that has just soaked us during our coffee excursion into Ancona city</td></tr>
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We are scheduled to call at Igoumenitsa late tomorrow with an arrival at Patras in 26 hours or so...This is not the fast ferry we paid for!</div>
Nikoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119901226987582553noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7402892457969337780.post-44333205997003225692016-05-27T15:36:00.003+01:002016-08-11T09:49:42.475+01:00Scotland the Wet<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A five day motorcycle tour of Scotland with the <a href="http://www.pemc.co.uk/" target="_blank">Σύλλογος των συνταξιούχων που θέτουν λέσχης μοτοσικλέτας</a> was bound to encounter some rain - my expectations were not dashed.<br />
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As a Scottish virgin, I was however blown away by the spectacular and diverse scenery and my ability to effect a puncture repair. I neither had the opportunity to visit a distillery nor eat haggis.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Business started at Moffat and took a clockwise turn around west and east finishing at Wetherall on the River Eden near Carlisle, a border outpost only just on the safe side of Hadrian's Wall</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gear explosion #1 ! at the Buccleuch Arms Hotel in Moffat</td></tr>
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<i>To Fort William</i><br />
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Whilst the rain had abated at Moffat overnight, I decided to leg it past Glasgow on the motorways and hit the sunny banks of Loch Lomond as soon as possible before the forecast afternoon rain came. Two things went wrong with that plan.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My companions Roger and Mike enjoy dripping over nice furnishings whilst coffee drinking - Hotel overlooking Loch Lomond</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Further to the prolonged coffee stop, the MV Agusta suffered a rear tyre deflation and we waited some 3 hours for "recovery" on a dangerous off camber bend in the driving rain. Whilst Mike had come prepared with a puncture repair kit there was no discernible hole to fill..</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It turns out the deflation had been caused by a hard to find piece of glass emedded in the tread</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some time later I drip into the Alexandra Hotel Fort William to dry my boots with the supplied hair dryer</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">For the record - Hotel Alexandra the next sunny morning</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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This was to be a mostly fine and puncture free day.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Ben Nevis hugging bike friendly Thistle Stop at Invergarry on the A82 just before Loch Ness</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">By some misunderstanding of the intended route I navigate down the most superb road the A87 and arrive at Dornie, Loch Alsh on the right and Loch Duich on the left</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inspection of the Michelin reveals that we are on the west coast</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The ride further North to Ullapool on the A835 was memorable for it's views and pounding rain which soon cleared having passed Loch Glascarnoch - here is Loch Broom</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> A modest fishing fleet - sometimes Russian boats park here.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A nice new car ferry made by <span style="background-color: white; color: #221e1f; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft MBH and Co KG</span></span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> - Loch Seaforth - a whole load of new ferries to spot up here under the</span><a href="https://www.calmac.co.uk/fleet" style="font-size: 12.8px;" target="_blank"> CalMac</a><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> flag.</span></td></tr>
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<i>Through the Cairngorms to the Tay and more deflation</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Passing Inverness we look for a coffee stop - this scrapheap challenge location at Inverness Airport did not have a cafe so we proceeded East along the A96 </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">..to Ozzy's place just before Nairn</td></tr>
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The A939 windswept and torrential with cyclists of all shapes and psychotic illnesses took us in single track fashion up dale and down glen - no photos due to water ingress danger - through the Cairngorms.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emerging at Braemar the rain subsided and the Hungry Highlander served deep fried mozarella sticks.<br />
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At this juncture the MV Agusta has another puncture....this time we find a nail and so I make a repair using a plastic plug and some sealant from Roger's rusty can. We arrive late at the hotel wondering what to do next.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Talk about customer service - a pair of tyres supplied on a Sunday?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inside view of the defective tyre - Believe it or not this plastic tyre repair plug actually worked.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Waterproof stop - I follow Mike newly shod over the River Forth, around Edinburgh and down along the A701 to Moffat</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back in Knutsford - total trip 956.3 puncture proof miles.</td></tr>
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Nikoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119901226987582553noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7402892457969337780.post-36324966779062132912016-05-08T17:37:00.000+01:002016-08-11T09:50:12.115+01:00Blooming Luvly in Holland<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Despite my loathing of trips through Holland mainly due to flatness, constant heavy traffic, bad driving, poor service areas especially for motorcyclists, constant rain, confusing signage, even more confusing motorway junctions and stupid speed limits just to name a few, I was advised to visit tulips near Amsterdam on my return from Greek Easter celebrations in Wiesbaden. (Best not to go to Greece for Easter due to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fustanella" target="_blank">fustanella</a> outbreaks).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the way from Europort Rotterdam to Wiesbaden: Last Saturday was obviously "bring out your caravan " day. OK until the German border was crossed at Venlo and some confusion set in as to the correct speed limit.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wiesbaden: a nice Italian job by the Kur Haus</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No seagulls here</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Enough said but was actually is it my German friends enquire?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our Easter guests from England are told that this is a small egg by German standards</td></tr>
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With only a short time to show guests Wiesbaden we focus on our favourite communistic cafe <a href="http://www.cafeklatsch-wiesbaden.de/" target="_blank">Klatsch</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closed for business unfortunately due to a party the night before!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No Coca-Cola available here</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pile driving.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Like "Fahrt" this always delivers a titter from English types</td></tr>
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Next day on the drive to back Europort I discover a new function on the car's electronic wizard TV screen displaying altitude. The tulips at Keukenhof are in full bloom and is open only from March to May<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Holland is mostly below sea level and this proves it. My radio button also flew off - I blame Dutch roads for this obviously.</td></tr>
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The tulips are in full bloom and Keukenhof is open only from March to May. Here is the official website ----> <a href="http://www.keukenhof.nl/en/" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On approach to Keukenhof</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We managed to walk around the whole estate in about 2 hours</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">lunch - no idea what it was</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tulips are Ottoman - here is the pasha who invented them.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tulip naughty bits</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Realistic wax works sporting Dutch traditional dress</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Safely installed on our super P&O cruise ferry I spot a coffee boat moored next to us</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In August I'll be trying the Stena service to Hook of Holland, which is just the other side of the Rhine estuary from Europort</td></tr>
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<i>Coming up next - May Day fun in Knutsford.</i></div>
Nikoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119901226987582553noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7402892457969337780.post-669414755480200052016-04-26T09:24:00.001+01:002016-08-11T09:50:45.389+01:00Please Do Not Feed the Sea Gulls BMW Motorrad Tour 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Some in the blogging community choose to visit places in Wales portrayed on their Granny's old tea towel, or should that be "... their old Granny's tea towel."? Quite a good idea but my Granny's tea towels got stolen by the Turks. <br />
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I have visited many places around the UK where seagulls have been problematic so this weekend I had lust for sea air, seagulls and crappy food eaten in the proximity of tatooed loud and incomphrehensible sounding Northern people. Please don't get me wrong, I am a snob. So I took the opportunity to test the concept of a Motorcycle touring company specialising in problematic sea side locations with shitting sea birds open exclusively to BMW Motorrad riders - and I need to put some miles on my new machine prior to its "running in" service where I will be charged £150 or so for a free coffee.<br />
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I chose for the inaugral tour the Northen Welsh resort town of Llandudno and picked the cheapest hotel with a seagull problem on the marvellous website "last minute guano dot com".<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That red motorcycle is actually mine at Llandudno - clever these BMW GPS systems? Stoke on Trent does not enter into it but I went past Rhyl OK.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here we are: The Shelbourne hotel, the only place to have been bombed out of the solid esplanade front... I had to ride around a bit to find the advertised exclusive hotel parking area tucked around by the dustbins.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On approach to the parking area my first seagulls are spotted</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tucked in nicely</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In Room 4 I feel instantly at home.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The explosion of motorcycle gear increases significantly the entropy of the room within minutes of arrival.</td></tr>
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I had in mind a few things to do in Llandudno such as visit the obvious Victorian pier and the Great Orme tramway. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some appealing buildings - I do like a good recessed balcony</td></tr>
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The weather forecast for the weekend was sun cloud rain and wind, in no particular order.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I notice that there is a ski slope and cable car too</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Perillous view as we are dragged up the lower town reaches of the Great Orme</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's the Halfway point and we must transfer tram to the summit</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The marxist styled concrete block masquerading as the visitor money extraction centre </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ships in a field as a Greek coach tour guide might say</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not a seagull - they can't make it to this altitude</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View down the piste to Llandudno bay</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Following consumption of a lot of healthy fare, I forego my return tram fare and walk down back to the town next to the tram way (or in the local lingo <i>Dramfffordboyo</i>)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Both the lower and upper sections are cable powered but differ in their construct. The upper has 3 cables linked to two tram cars and a winch at the top. The lower has a cable attached to each tram car wound around contra rotating drums at the top... I think.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The welcome arrival of a Honda breaks the constant drone and squaeking of sheep and moving cable pullies</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The passing point - gravity is our friend and as one comes down another goes up</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anxious to investigate how the cable is picked up I lie on the line</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Technical blurb</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Town texture</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is probably not "do not feed the seagulls" in Welsh</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Dim Fford </i>is obviously no route and I suppose <i>sgio</i> could mean snow, but<i> llethr</i>? Leather??</td></tr>
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The walk down the Great Orme was bracing in the cold spring wind that was to bring sleet snow and hail the next day. The next priority was a restorative capucinno on the Guy Martin Pier -------><a href="https://www.facebook.com/GuyMartinRacing/posts/474346019276305" target="_blank"> see, this is true!</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The pier is in good Victorian nick</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A bit windy at the end of the pier and my froth is blown over the side</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some visiting bikers wondering where the sea has gone</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anti seagull measures prevail -"<i><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="cy"><span class="">Nid ydynt yn</span> ei hoffi i fyny Mae eu gwaelodion</span></i>" as Corporal Jones might have mused on <a href="http://www.s4c.cymru/cy/" target="_blank">C4C</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="cy"><span class="">Iechyd a</span> <span class="">Ffarwel</span> da am y tro!</span></i></span></div>
Nikoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119901226987582553noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7402892457969337780.post-5620894729104843682016-04-15T08:31:00.002+01:002016-08-11T09:51:19.791+01:00Arson About in Athens<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Nikos World Publicity Department.</i></b></span><br />
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For Immediate Release:<br />
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Some Greek children with a radical mission to burn down Nikos World Towers in central Athens (Greece) succeeded in breaching the extensive security measures and let off 6 gas bombs in the 2nd floor hallway. Amidst dramatic scenes of rescue on the 3rd floor, the resultant blaze was soon extinguished but moderate smoke and water damage was sustained up the central stair well. The perpetrators, reported by a witness to be 2 smartly dressed males and a female entered the building around 7pm holding a Lidl shopping bag...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking on the positive side, the place needed redecorating after 86 years. The lift has also seen considerably better days.</td></tr>
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<i>Elsewhere in Athens over a pleasant spring weekend:</i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A useful place to stay on the beach especially when one's residence has been fire bombed</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fisherman and dog</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Canoodling couple and cello</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My net worth</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The oranges still grow and remain unpicked despite austerity</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Classic boxer air cooled with art deco gear lever</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">a shapely mud guard which looks as if it might actually perform a useful function </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">discrete extra rear lights on rear protection bars</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bar end flashers - a fine example of BMW motorcycle spotted on my sea side stroll</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The poor man's marina Glifada No. 3</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Motors at half mast waiting for the summer to arrive</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A stiff wind at the trendy Sirocco</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flowers, beach, sea.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ca,t cat, cat.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Contented beach feral cat.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cats examining my discarded apple pie - a little too sweet for my taste and I suspect that the fat pigeon finished this off - in hindsight I would have hated to have contributed to cats caries.</td></tr>
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Back at the Airport for my return journey, I have time to explore (but avoid the ridiculous shops save for a bottle of Ouzo). There is an exhibition area displaying historical and other cultural stuff.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A bizarre underwater ballet performed at Cape Sounion in 2015 is displayed - called <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WNMSEG-rD0" target="_blank">Drops of Breath.</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reminder of modern Greece's refugee crisis of 1922</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Motorcycles rule and are allowed to park 10m away from the arrivals area </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Olympic legacy - whether to the former airline or the sporting event I'm not sure.</td></tr>
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Nikoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119901226987582553noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7402892457969337780.post-76336863866741070132016-04-05T17:23:00.000+01:002016-04-06T13:54:26.747+01:00Fleet Update and Cat and Fiddle <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The 2016 UK fleet is as follows:<br />
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<b><i>BMW R1200GS Adventure LC</i></b><br />
Range at max payload around 300 miles give or take a cappuccinno or two<br />
Power/Torque 125PS/125Nm<br />
Fuel consumption 50mpg 95RON Petrol<br />
Max payload 220kg<br />
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<b><i>Scott Sportster 30 XXL Bicycle with Aldi gel saddle cover</i></b><br />
Range at max payload around 30 miles per Mars bar give or take a defribillator or two<br />
Power/Torque 0.01 PS/1Nm<br />
Fuel consumption 50mpg cabernet sauvignon<br />
Max payload ***kg<br />
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<b><i>Skoda Yeti 2.0 TDI 4X4</i></b><br />
Range at max payload around 600 miles give or take a comfort stop or two<br />
Power/Torque 170PS/350Nm<br />
Fuel consumption 50mpg smelly old diesel fuel<br />
Max payload 645kg<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">Important note to my stakeholders past, present and implied: Various third party financial institutions own all of these vehicles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In other news:</span><br />
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I rode to the Cat and Fiddle Inn on a proving run to find it closed down and an empty car park.<br />
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All is not lost as on googling today I discover new management may have <a href="http://www.catandfiddleinn.com/" target="_blank">taken over</a>! I need to go and take a look.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">TTFN.</span></div>
Nikoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119901226987582553noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7402892457969337780.post-16341820667550951782016-03-17T08:26:00.002+00:002016-03-17T08:33:40.269+00:00Another Day in Bayreuth with a New Pair of Shoes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The list of attractions and other sites to visit had diminished a little by Sunday morning. My expensive £130 ECCO shoes has fallen to pieces yesterday but I had managed after protestation to find a nice pair of size 50 Josef Seibels reduced to €80 in a mega shoe supermarket. I'm sure that you are all pleased to read this detail.<br />
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We ascended the hill towards the Festspielhaus in light drizzle.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With immense disappointment we discover the place under wraps - Stephen Fry would have wept. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Next on the list was a visit to my Great Aunty Wilhelmine's place, the <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eremitage_(Bayreuth)" target="_blank">Eremitage</a> which<i> i<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">st eine ab 1715 entstandene historische </span>Parkanlage</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"><i> mit Wasserspielen und Bauwerken</i> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;">some miles out of town.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not Hyde Park corner in London but the roof of the Orangerie</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Panoramic shot through drizzle showing the stables - a welcoming hotel and tea room were not open in this low season.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amazing use of teeth</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As a former glider pilot of little repute I suggested to Mrs N that we visit Bayreuth International airport where gliding championships take place and there was bound to be derelict GDR MIG fighter to look at and a welcoming cafe.</td></tr>
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We discuss taking flying lessons so Mrs N could become a flying Doctor. We look forward to a pleasant evening strolling in the town as the sun comes out.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I was warned about converging verticals at my school photography class. Here is our second hotel the Lohmule thankfully lacking plastic RWs.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm informed that this is a tilting train able to negotiate twisting tracks at high speed whilst passenger's coffee is dispensed sideways due to centripetal forces. Anyway a quick journey to Nurenberg cost only €11,20 including a U bahn ride to the airport - a bargain compared to UK rail fares.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oh for a beautiful SNR Excelsior 55! Where would she take me? </td></tr>
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Nikoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119901226987582553noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7402892457969337780.post-88437784651303835342016-03-15T18:19:00.000+00:002016-03-15T22:34:27.159+00:00Radio Bayreuth and Me<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i>The Prologue:</i><br />
T<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">here snuggling at the bottom right of the MW band below <span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berom%C3%BCnster" target="_blank">Beromünster</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span> and boxed in the corner by Stuttgart with only a faux art deco knob for worldly company lay <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayreuth" target="_blank">Bayreuth</a> - yes - my Grandfather's Grundig 1010 radio provided childhood geographical fascination all wrapped up in gold inlayed faux wood bakelite case whenever I visited his villa in <span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCy%C3%BCkada" target="_blank">Πρίγκηπος</a></span>. I remember Bayreuth to this day and when Mrs N announced her 2016 programme with three solid weeks in Upper Franconia I jumped readily at the opportunity to fly to Nurenberg in Ryanair discomfort and catch a type<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB_Class_610" target="_blank"> DB610</a> tilting pendolino DMU to Bayreuth HbF.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Grundig 1010 receiver with 5 valves and some other stuff - 1952 vintage - my Grandfather's pride and joy along with a cuckoo clock</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And then there was Wagner. And naturally enough for UK media the works of manic depressive Stephen Fry e.g. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlmaEpw7oz0" target="_blank">VERY INTERESTING DOCUMENTARY ABOUT WAGNER AND mostly STEPHEN FRY</a></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Long time no queue and fly: Stansted <span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">airport shopping mall </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">"no where near London" (or anywhere else for that matter) to Nuremberg Airport (A €3 U Bahn ride to the HbF touch.)</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Everywhere we went we saw plastic Richard Wagners</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We visit the Neues Schloss, <span style="text-align: justify;">Margrave Friedrich seat and unphotographable i</span><span style="text-align: justify;">s a well-known example of the 'Bayreuth Rococo' style and is considered to be one of the most important masterpieces of 18th century architecture in Germany</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Haus Wahnfried now part of the <a href="https://www.wagnermuseum.de/info/" target="_blank">Richard Wagner Museum</a>, lived in by the Wagner family until 1966</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This carbuncle of a building sits to the side of the house and is connected by a tunnel and forms the entry point to the museum and house.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The cosmos of Wagner composition available on command through marvelous Sennheiser headphones.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Nearby is <span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;">The Franz Liszt Museum in the house where </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Liszt" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Franz Liszt">Franz Liszt</a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #252525;"><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> died, with about 300 photographs, scripts and printed papers from the collection of the Munich pianist, Ernst Burger, which were bought by the town of Bayreuth. Unfortunately there was no music to hear, a particular favourite of mine being the Beethoven 6 piano transcription.</span></span></span></span><br />
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Whilst not ostensibly a fan of soccer now known as Association Football or The Beautiful Game as disgraced paedeophile Stuart Hall called it, I do like a good lunch especially if a family member is offering it to me in an Executive Box at The Ricoh Arena in Coventry. The lunch is followed by the entertainment of watching a match between Coventry City FC (formerly Singers FC after the bicycle company) and Fleetwood Town FC (the CODS) - this apparently is match in the first division which is now third tier.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Ricoh Arena is properly meant for rugby football but Coventry City FC rent the facilities having sold off their former Main Road ground to build a Tesco supermarket. A hotel is incorporated.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the "Executive box" - it's actually a converted hotel room (the bed is stuffed in the cupboard)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Confused by the rules I don't understand why there is line out with water spraying over the players in February?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jimmy Hill appears again - no capacity crowd but nice blue seats - the stands long since disappeared along with coal mines and British industry.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nice boots Fleetwood</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After a while the bored goaly starts practicing silly walks</td></tr>
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The next day the NW team visited Lichfield.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The cathedral is approximately 1km long</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from the house of Erasmus Darwin</td></tr>
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Across the green from the cathedral we visited the former house and now museum of Physician <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_Darwin" target="_blank">Erasmus Darwin</a> <span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">(12 December 1731 – 18 April 1802)</span>. He was the grandfather of Charles. He was short fat and ugly and produced 14 children with 3 different ladies. Amongst other things he invented a speaking machine and proper coupled steering for horse drawn carriages (before the German <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ackermann_steering_geometry" target="_blank">Ackerman system</a>) . He was a founder member of the Lunar Society. I have plans to investigate Erasmus further.<br />
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Nikoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119901226987582553noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7402892457969337780.post-4501817325734142312016-02-19T13:54:00.003+00:002016-02-19T13:58:51.622+00:00We Go to Walhalla and Eat Meatballs in IKEA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Yes it's true, a flawless journey on an ICE last autumn to Regensburg on the <i>Donau</i> to eat old bratwurst. Walhalla was an unanticipated bonus of near biblical proportions. ICE ran on time. Walhalla seen. Meatballs eaten at IKEA. Good Job Bob. *<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The aluminum ICE snakes into view amongst severe visual pollution of steel.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Danube<i> (Donau)</i> trickles through Regensberg on it's way to the Black Sea - amazing these Euro rivers and bridges</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The old banger house serving Germany's oldest (most elderly?) sausages</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Love and sauerkraut on a plate</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We decided not to stay in Regensberg - a half day there is enough really, so we headed back to Wiesbaden. However nearby Walhalla was on Mrs N's bucket list as she has seen it from afar form the Autostrada many times .</td></tr>
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<span id="goog_1445016202"></span><span id="goog_1445016203"></span>This place is something like a Dr Who film set and contains 130 busts of <strike>time lords </strike> famous Germans - rather than trot out the spiel here it is ----><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walhalla_memorial" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unlike the Parthenon, this 17 per long side columned beauty place has not my knnowledge ever been used by Turks as a munitions store</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love to see sun rays especially just before we are going to look for a nice pub to eat</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first time I have actively bombed a photo shoot by doing my silly walks routine - the model is mortified</td></tr>
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We headed off for the surrounding villages to find a nice pub - unfortunately it was either a little too early, or the locals had already heard about us, but they were all closed.<br />
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* I once worked with an irritating colleague who used this expression frequently: It probably originates from a US Do It Yourself show hosted by Kevin whose co presenter Bob manages to build decks and hidden cupboards etc using powered staple guns and vinyl wood effect panels.<br />
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Nikoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119901226987582553noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7402892457969337780.post-18606378518215354542016-01-12T10:25:00.002+00:002016-01-12T10:36:13.684+00:00Ramblings in the Peloponnese and the search for Paddy's Moussaka<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;"><i>Robert Louis Stevenson wrote (inter alia) " </i></span></span><span style="background-color: #fff9f4; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.9px;"><i>Little do ye know your own blessednes; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour." I'm not so sure about the labour bit but it certainly applies when one has a holiday home. So we have arrived at Mrs Nikos Towers and the grapes were half good.</i></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Within minutes of arriving Kitty 2 engratiates herself</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rapi our builder has done good transformimg the scorpion infested basement into a stone lined scorpion infested basement.</td></tr>
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Sunday - A trip to Nafplion as I like going there to eat and Rapi junior has never been.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">a V or a W but not a complete PKW</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The castle fortress at the top of the rock is Venetian and I made the mistake of saying that I had never been up there</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was worth struggling up the 1000 steps to Fortress of Palamidi for the view!</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">And so Rick Stein put moussaka on the map and this is good. You can read about that ----><a href="http://patrickleighfermor.org/2015/09/26/rick-stein-served-moussaka-by-elpida-at-paddys-house/" target="_blank">here</a></span></span><br />
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Granny Mrs Nikos is arriving at Kalamata airport so I have arranged a mini tour towards the Mani and passing by Kardamyli, Patrick's ("PLF's") adopted home village.<br />
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We travel south to Leonidio and turn inland to pass by the staggering rock perching Monastry of Elonas<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Elonas staggerment. The view is better than when we last traversed this route in the rain with soggy crotch -<a href="http://nikoscosmos.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/unsophisticated-yet-happy-lives.html" target="_blank"> 2010 Flashback</a></td></tr>
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A night stop at the southern port town of Gytheio - I am keen to catch a ferry from here to Kythera and Crete but not this time.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The wonderful Hotel Milton at Gytheio provided French Widows with delightful prospects</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some renovation has taken place but this Laconic town gives off a generally grotty presence</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reminds me of my early shock encounter with my Aunt when I discovered Coronation street was very popular on ERT (my Aunt used to watch it in all its grotty black and white Granada splendour in the 60s)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The harbour is being rebuilt - using D Day Mulberry technology?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the end of the corniche a Harley of dubious condition draws us into this beachside establishment</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A tranquil beach with restaurant attached - excellent!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We are late for the rendevous at Kalamata airport so the journey through Kardmayli is rushed and we do not have time to search for Patrick's villa - the views are splendid however but the road north towards Kalamata is painfully slow.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The PLF villa at Kardamyli (stolen from the internet image - with thanks whoever...)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Albanian Tree Feller at work (old Irish joke:Tre miqtë kërkuar?)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Impromtu music at neighbouring Meligou evening signing communistic Theodorakis</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An ανθρωποθυρίδα κάλυψη is installed (or is it a κάλυμμα σκατά;)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I finish the under sink tiling job started last summer</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I park the motorcycle at the beach for a photoshoot</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I park the motorcycle at Aghios Petros for a photoshoot</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The sunshine boys</td></tr>
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Nikoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119901226987582553noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7402892457969337780.post-21648839786344441442016-01-01T12:28:00.002+00:002016-01-01T12:28:56.671+00:00Carry On Down the North Euboean Gulf<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i>Prologue:</i> Party over, sleeping open air and several pints of black coffee later I try to avoid throwing up at breakfast and chew ibuprofen - wonderful stuff.<br />
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Today we drive to Mrs Nikos Towers in Arcadia, at the bottom of the map.<br />
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Our friends have built a villa in northern Evia on a hill side overlooking the sea some 500m away, at the bottom of a perilous bouldered goat track. They manage to drive scooters up and down - even 50cc Chinese models.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Demonstration of scooter off roading 2 up lots of wheel spin</td></tr>
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The final thrust to Mrs Nikos Towers in Arcadia takes us around Athens on modern motorways and then along the Peristaltic Gulf past oil refineries and souvlaki vendors to cross the Corinth canal and then into Argolis and finally Arcadia.<br />
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We had to get a move on, from the early morning CorFew ferry to Igoumenitsa we had a country to cross, a mountain range or two to traverse and another ferry to catch, to arrive at Evia before sunset and mosquito oblivion.<br />
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Driving around the rather tatty Igoumenitsa port one stumbles on a brand new but bent signpost indicating a new motorway heading east <span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><span lang="el" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;" xml:lang="el">Εγνατία Οδός - </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egnatia_Odos_(modern_road)" target="_blank">Egnatia Odos</a> to Constantinople (sort of). I fantasise that this is really the Byzantinium Parkway.<br />
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We carve through the Pindus mountains with all possible dispatch and join the (OLD) Greek National Road 6 at some gorge or other. All a bit of a rush and worthy no doubt of a more sedate exploration later. Read this later *<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metsovo" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metsovo</a>* says the teleprompter.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A welcome sight and site - lunch:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Landing on the plain of Thessaly we soon spot Meteora, a film set built by Cubby Brocoli for the James Bond film "For your Eyes Only"</td></tr>
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A lot of stuff here about wicker baskets lift systems and accommodating monks -----><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteora" target="_blank"> HERE WE ARE</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the best highway view...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">..passing by at warp speed - see how the red pickup is subject to space-time contraction</td></tr>
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The roads across the plain are hot, straight, free of traffic and boring. We don't quite know whether the ferry to Evia still exists at the port to which we are heading - Glifa. We are visiting friends who will be leaving the next day from Evia.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hard to stay awake </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After a spell on the National road we are guided to a winding track through olive groves</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the end of the road a ferry port is spotted.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A lovely local ferry arrives..</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...A ticket to Apokampos later...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">we are on the island of Evia</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We are not too late for the leaving party.</td></tr>
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Nikoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119901226987582553noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7402892457969337780.post-14712698261278531162015-12-22T09:01:00.000+00:002015-12-22T09:07:58.860+00:00Plane Spotting at Αερολιμένας "Ιωάννης Καποδίστρια"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>The journey moves on to a two day tour of the Ionian island of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corfu_International_Airport" target="_blank">Corfu</a>, or Core Few as the Brits call her. the Greeks say Kerkyra or Κέρκυρα. I had visted here 35 years ago. I also had a letter published in <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/108fa5e5-cc28-3ea8-b4a0-129912a74efc" target="_blank">the Radio Times</a> in 1969 which corrected Cliff Michelmore's pronounciation of Core Few.</i><br />
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Further to disgorgement from the high speed <i>Cruise Olympia</i> at the flourishing mainland Greek port of Igoumentitsa we proceded to Corfu on the ineptly named Kerkyra Express, a converted Japanese whaler by the smell of her.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The rainswept and grim local ferry port resembles Northwich-on-sea market on a normal day</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The ineptly named Kerkyra Express - stately transport to the nearby island of Corfu</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Apparently this leviathan 1,199 ton vessel was originally called the <a href="http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2173235" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">New Hiyama</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"> </a>and possibly survived a tsunami - a disorder of mine is to see what former names have been painted out by the Greek owners who specialise in maritime salvage and reuse</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corfu" target="_blank">Corfu </a>venetian facade</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>I booked the Ariti Grand hotel near Corfu town with views over "the lagoon" and Mrs N's reaction are initially favourable until she peers through the triple glazed balcony door...</i></td></tr>
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A little later we explore the town.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>This is the first Greek town I know which has a cycle super highway - Boris please note. </i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>We were pretty shuttered after our long stroll</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>It's always vaguely amusing to to read Greek <a href="http://atticgreek.org/downloads/GreekTransliteration.pdf" target="_blank">transliteration </a>of English place names especially when they are in <span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="el"><span class="hps">φαντασμένος</span> <span class="hps">πολτός</span></span></i> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>By now you have already read the wikipedia link provided above to dsicover the British influence in Corfew - in particular ginger beer and cricket. This beer was proper however and quite good. The cricket square is now used mostly as a car park.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Cathedral square souvlaki restaurant - pretty decent value .</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Wet stone pavements remind me of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Man" target="_blank">Third Man</a></i></td></tr>
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Other than the<strike> international airport </strike> lagoon I did not recognise much of the town since my last visit 35 years ago. Consiserable touristic tarting up has taken place. The next day Mrs N wants to search out the palace that Sisi built and I want to spot aircraft.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Achilleion</b> (Greek: <span lang="el">Αχίλλειο or Αχίλλειον</span>) is a palace built in Gastouri, Corfu by Empress of Austria Elisabeth of Bavaria, also known as Sisi, after a suggestion by Austrian Consul Alexander von Fartberg.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-GNTO_1-0"></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-KritikosPoulis1996_2-0"></sup> Elisabeth was a woman obsessed with beauty, and very powerful, but tragically vulnerable since the loss of her only son, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria in the Mayerling Incident in 1889. A year later in 1890, she built a summer palace in the region of Gastouri (Γαστούρι), now the municipality of Achilleion, about ten kilometres to the south of the city of Corfu. The palace was designed with the mythical hero Achilles as its central theme. Later Phil the Greek of Buck House was born nearby at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon_Repos,_Corfu" target="_blank">Mon Repos</a> . Its uses include a casino and now it's a museum.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilleion_%28Corfu%29#cite_note-Nixon1916-4"></a></i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>So here we are standing in a long line of cruise ship sail ins.</i></td></tr>
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We drive to the Northwest of the island to visit my childhood haunt of <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>I remember my father ordering lobster here - we don't see it on the menu. We swim, eat chips and move on.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>We trundle on behind a tour bus designed to fit perfectly through Corfiot villages</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Views from the top of the island are fine</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The olive trees are wild and not well looked after - tourism provides the income here</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Trip Advisor Tip: The restaurant at the Ariti Grand did not serve a la carte food catering mainly for Romanian package tours and screaming kids. We ate our evening meal here and were looked after very well. </i></td></tr>
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Early next morning we dodged a blockade of cruise ships in our local ferry to Igoumenitsa and then to resume our journey across the centre of Greece to the island of Evia on the east coast. I never mentioned the Durrell family...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With scenes redolent of the the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriatic_campaign_of_1807%E2%80%9314" target="_blank">Adriatic campaign of 1807</a> we navigate through the blockade </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Britannia rules the waves</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A room with a sea view? Mein Gott....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I have a pimple</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mrs N catches up on sleep away from the airport lagoon view.</td></tr>
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Nikoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03119901226987582553noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7402892457969337780.post-52996039650754057582015-12-11T18:37:00.002+00:002015-12-19T09:13:57.527+00:00September Travels - the Tunnel Rush<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Following the Balkan adventure of 2014, we elected to try Minoan Lines, an Italian owned shipping company operating fast ferries down the Adriatic.<br />
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Days 1 and 2 - Wiesbaden to Ancona.<br />
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I enjoy drivng through the Alps in daylight so the plan was made to overnight half way at Belinzona Switzerland leaving Wiesbaden early afternoon. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>mountains and lake - my dream is realised</i></td></tr>
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All going well with eta at Belinzona 21:30 when sign spotted in Italian roughly translated to "St Gotthard Tunnel to close at 21:00" - trouble was overnight stop so thoughtfully planned is the other side...<br />
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We make the tunnel entrance 2 minutes before closure and emerge in Ticino to see much <i>stau</i> not going North...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Belinzona - thoughtfully provided public facilities and free to use too</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A double room here at the converted Istituto Santa Maria with breakfast cost around €80 - not to bad for Switzerland. </td></tr>
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Next day the slog past Milan to Ancona was undertaken with little incident.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Interesting cappuccino ginseng available on many italian autostrada</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>solar powered car parking shades - now that is a good idea</i></td></tr>
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However the ship was delayed some hours in arrival at Ancona so after check-in we ventured into the town of Ancona to find gluten free pizza and some food.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>water features everywhere</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>should be blowing air?</i></td></tr>
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Meanwhile back at the port some late action eventually takes place.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The "Cruise Olympia" skulks into Ancona port 3 hours late</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Following the chaotic unloading/loading process...</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>...we are safely installed.</i></td></tr>
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The delay worked to our advantage as we arrived at Igoumenitsa at a more civilised time of the morning. Oh, and we booked a cabin this time!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>on board amenities include bull dancing...</i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>...followed by an expensive <span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="el"><span class="hps">μπιφτέκι</span></span></i></td></tr>
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