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“Travels to a Different Time” : 13July1973: Ios, Greece: Wild Bill Pukes Up His Dinner and Lots of Retsina: No More Greasy Goulash: Shark Attack

On the way home from picking up breakfast supplies I had a wipe out and the glass bottle of water broke and I cut my hand. Not badly and its nothing a bit of salt water can’t fix assuming the sharks don’t smell the blood and attack! Went to village beach to hang out. IContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” : 13July1973: Ios, Greece: Wild Bill Pukes Up His Dinner and Lots of Retsina: No More Greasy Goulash: Shark Attack”

“Travels to a Different Time” : June 24, 1971: Korcula, Yugoslavia: Fantastic Meal for Two for $2.60 and A Cigarette Tantrum

Up at 8 a.m. for a shower and caught a bus to the town of Lumbarda which was supposed to have a fantastic beach. Bought rolls, ham and cheese for breakfast to have on the beach. The bus was jam packed with no tourists in sight! Up in the hills the roads are so narrowContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” : June 24, 1971: Korcula, Yugoslavia: Fantastic Meal for Two for $2.60 and A Cigarette Tantrum”

“Travels to a Different Time” : June 19, 1971: So Much for Italian Spaghetti Sauce in Venice! Good-Bye Fritz!

Woken up at 5 in the morning with Russian radio over the speakers! We had breakfast chugging along a canal and at 9 a.m. we docked in Venice. We grabbed a water taxi on the shore to take us to a bank where Fritz could change some money. After that we took a number 1Continue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” : June 19, 1971: So Much for Italian Spaghetti Sauce in Venice! Good-Bye Fritz!”

“Travels to a Different Time” :July 1970: The Wedding at Menetis, The Gross Hacking Cough and Goat Stew!

We returned from Orthos and found a hotel room in Pigadia. While we were in Orthos we received an invitation to a wedding being held in nearby Menetis a very famous church in Karpathos. We took the bus there and the wedding was at a church sitting on top of a mountain. The groom marchedContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” :July 1970: The Wedding at Menetis, The Gross Hacking Cough and Goat Stew!”