Was looking through some old stuff yesterday and found a few slips of paper from some of the old little memories from Athens in the ole days.
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Chasing Chickens
It was evening in Oinoi train station, an hour’s north of Athens and a dark and isolated place. We were the only lights for many miles around and we were gathered there waiting on a train. The only thing really to do in the station was to eat and drink. and we did.
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Getting to Eleusina
Running trains meant an ever vigilant presence on any incoming trains to Athens. One of the busiest ( as it linked up with a Brindisi – Patras ferry – was the 309 this came into Eleusina at around 4pm each day, though it was, like most trains, late often as not. Trouble is that there was [...]
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Interrail with Billy and Steve
Neil (Billy) Stevie Lee and I left on the ferry as Luke shouted “”
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Eleusis portal to Attica
here in fading light I learnt a lot, I sat with Tim and Larry as distant lights lit up tracts of track towards us. I sat with many friends : Ahmed, Candia, Dave, Kenny, Thomas, Bea, Hannes, Lars, Patrick and others- so many others, as diesel trains made their way through the night to us, [...]
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Firenze
Florence, one day in 1988 by accident…… I was in Munich the day before and wanted a sleep. I asked the Haupbahnhof for advice :”you gotta long train please” ; I said to them. they ot understandin the impost of my free mind could not advise. Only when I explained in detail that I wanted [...]
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