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on: Δευτέρα 30 Ιούνιος 2008, 19:19:32 μμ
In August 2005. Simon Roberts, a freelance Graphic Artist set off…to Kathmandu, Nepal”. Everyone has their own reasons for setting off on a trip like this. The death of my wife Julie from cancer in 2002 certainly played a huge part in why I left that August. We’d traveled far and wide around Europe – our final carefree trip together had been in 2001 to Morocco, “the nearest far-away land”. A wonderful experience. She died twelve months later.

You slowly get used to the idea of traveling alone. At first, the thought of sitting in miserable East European Hotels – alone – after years of traveling together was something I simply could not contemplate. But slowly, you thumb through old guidebooks…peruse old maps …rekindle old ideas…and something bites you. You feel a shiver go through your body and “The Trip” is born.

Σε κάθε χώρα που πάει, φτιάχνει και ενα comic περίληψη αυτών που έζησε...

http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/simonroberts/


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Reply #1 on: Δευτέρα 30 Ιούνιος 2008, 22:12:37 μμ
  Συγκινητική ιστορία  :'(. Και πού φτάνει τώρα?




ΑΝ ΔΕΝ ΤΟ 'ΧΕΤΕ ΚΑΤΑΛΑΒΕΙ, ΕΧΕΙ ΑΡΧΙΣΕΙ Ο Γ' ΠΑΓΚΟΣΜΙΟΣ ΠΟΛΕΜΟΣ! ΧΩΡΙΣ ΟΠΛΑ ΑΥΤΗ ΤΗ ΦΟΡΑ (ΠΡΟΣ ΤΟ ΠΑΡΟΝ?). ΑΛΛΑ ΠΑΛΙ ΜΕ ΓΕΡΜΑΝΟΥΣ!


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Reply #2 on: Δευτέρα 30 Ιούνιος 2008, 22:19:54 μμ
ξέχασα να βάλω το link

http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/simonroberts/

18 Μαίου ήταν Τουρκία.
Να και το σχετικό comic




Και μέσα Ιουνίου Ιράν απο γνώριμα μέρη ...



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Reply #3 on: Δευτέρα 30 Ιούνιος 2008, 22:31:51 μμ
  Από Ελλάδα πέρασε? Είμαι περίεργος να δω το αντίστοιχο κόμικ.  ;D




ΑΝ ΔΕΝ ΤΟ 'ΧΕΤΕ ΚΑΤΑΛΑΒΕΙ, ΕΧΕΙ ΑΡΧΙΣΕΙ Ο Γ' ΠΑΓΚΟΣΜΙΟΣ ΠΟΛΕΜΟΣ! ΧΩΡΙΣ ΟΠΛΑ ΑΥΤΗ ΤΗ ΦΟΡΑ (ΠΡΟΣ ΤΟ ΠΑΡΟΝ?). ΑΛΛΑ ΠΑΛΙ ΜΕ ΓΕΡΜΑΝΟΥΣ!


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Reply #4 on: Δευτέρα 30 Ιούνιος 2008, 22:40:24 μμ
  Από Ελλάδα πέρασε? Είμαι περίεργος να δω το αντίστοιχο κόμικ.  ;D

εδώ είσαι...



και η περιγραφή

I argued my way out of Turkey and into Greece (insurance documents that weren’t green) and finally rode down off the ferry into the heat of Rhodes port. This felt so good. I’d flown to Rhodes a few times with my wife Julie – great cheap package holidays - but there was something about riding all the way here….

An hour later I pulled up outside the portals of Hotel Bacchus and was tugged from my bike by a manic nephew and niece.
‘Uncle Simon! Uncle SIMON! You’ve got to come and see the pool!...our room!…the beach!…everything!
I was surreptitiously fitted out with an ‘All inclusive’ wrist band and was led, at speed, to the restaurant and bar.

I ate, drank and was merry till the early hours in an atmosphere that made me think of a land locked cross-channel ferry. Sunburned Brits shouted at waiters ‘More drinks,mate!’. The same sunburned Brits shouted at their kids who raced around with wide Cola-charged eyes. The kids shouted at each other.
“Shouldn’t you be in bed?’ I asked, naively, pointing at my watch.
‘Nah! We’re on HOLIDAAAAY!’.

I spent the following day being pulled in all directions by fizzy drink-fuelled kids, buried alive and forced to ride an inflatable banana, while their parents lounged on sunbeds, chatting and drinking ‘inclusive' beer.

Stuffed with an ‘inclusive’ dinner, we made our way to one of the bars. By midnight I was ‘getting on well with Christine, an attractive woman from Cheltenham, when she was suddenly pulled from her bar stool by her three tired young children. I thought back to Devonshire holidays when I’d been allowed to join my parents in the evening for a milk shake – if I was lucky. ‘Seen not heard’. That’s what I say.

‘Uncle Simon, your dancing is really sad, ’ quipped Saffron, my niece. Time for bed.

………………………..


‘Uncle Simon? UNCLE SIMON! Are you awake yet? When are you going, cos we want to go to the beach?’
I’d fallen asleep fully clothed and somehow got my tongue stuck to the floor – or that’s what it felt like. An hour later, I peeled the last small boy off the loaded bike, kissed the girls, shook mens’ hands manfully and set off. Heather and co were leaving the following day so I’d decide to find myself a shady beach-side campsite for a few days before getting back on the trail.

‘There are no campsites on Rhodes, sir’ said the pretty girl at the Lindos tourist information.
I must have stood there open-mouthed because she repeated it again as if to say ‘We no longer want your kind on our island’.
Right. Got the message. Back to the bloody port and run the gauntlet back to Bodrum because ‘The car ferry to Marmaris is…’
‘Only once a week’, I butted in. ’I know. Kos then Bodrum it is then.’

Tickets bought. Ferry boarded. Rhodes faded into the twylight as we steamed east again.


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