• Interrail Trail 2023
  • Interrail Trail 2023

Interrail Trail 2023

Et 81-dagers eventyr av Interrail Trail 2023 Les mer
  • Hiking Kini

    5. oktober 2023, Hellas ⋅ 🌬 23 °C

    Local Greek 🚌 #2

    Yesterday feels like a distant memory, arriving at Kini safely and timely! This walk is from Kini to Varvarousa, giving a glimpse of the Natura 2000 area that the SCE is trying to protect 😍

    Not another sole 👣
    Clear waters 💧
    Bliss 😌
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  • Ecotourism?

    6. oktober 2023, Hellas ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

    My first visit to Apano Meria highlighted that human activity had been present in the area, but with more traditional ways of living...is development possible in todays society whilst protecting the environment 🤔

    Could Ecotourism provide a way? Let the research begin with a nice view 🪟 to ponder this over...
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  • Filming Apano Meria

    9. oktober 2023, Hellas ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

    🛵 # 1

    The SCE was contacted by a travel programme who asked to include a piece about Apano Meria. Totally unexpected that we would be asked to take part!

    We all went to the nature reserve... I travelled tandem with Io on her moped. The views were amazing, I just hope they can translate Stoke-on-Trent English 🤭

    The presenter, Jerome, is very well-known in 🇬🇷... More information to follow...but food then drinks 🍻 first!
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  • High-Value, Low Volume?

    10. oktober 2023, Hellas ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    Tourism Policy 🇧🇹

    Bhutan utilises Gross National Happiness GNH, not solely GDP... I wondered how they applied this socio-economic philosophy to Tourism?

    The research continues... with a 🍓 milkshake break with an edible chocolate straw! 😋

    wearesorbos.com ...Well Done 👏
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  • Manchester of Hermoupolis

    12. oktober 2023, Hellas ⋅ 🌬 20 °C

    Syros, historically an industrial town, had a network of textile 🏭

    Unknown why, in August 1986, the workers were told the factory was closed. The doors were shut, and everything was left in situ. In 2013, the factory was discovered, and private money invested to preserve the history of the last workers and their skills...🪡

    The Jacquard Loom is an absolutely amazing piece of technology! Peggy was absolutely fabulous 🥰 A trip to see if a working one is in action has been added to the list...

    https://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/museum-of-no…
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  • Camping Tinos

    14. oktober 2023, Hellas ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C

    Illegal Wild Camping 🏕 #1

    Taking ⛴️ # 2 ... for an island hop to Tinos! Tent in hand, I boarded local 🚌 #7 to Panormos on the far side of the island to find a place to pitch up in a spot where I would have less chance of being noticed 😏Les mer

  • Lady of Tinos Pilgrimage

    14. oktober 2023, Hellas ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

    A shrine to the Virgin Mary, becoming a destination of Christian pilgrimage to an Icon believed to be the source of miracles.

    Pilgrims crawl on their knees for about 800 meters from the Port up to the church's front steps, an act to pay homage to the miraculous Icon. Once inside the church, they would kiss the Icon adorned with jewels and pray for a miracle 🙏

    It was way too busy to visit inside...
    Next time...
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  • Marble Museum

    15. oktober 2023, Hellas ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

    Marble, a crystalline solid rock formed by the metamorphosis of limestone, is a formation of calcite and dolomite minerals. The presence of other minerals in differing amounts affects both physical properties and colour, 120+ kinds in Greece.

    Quarying methods ⛏️ largely stayed as per Greek antiquity until the 1950s, with quarrymen exploiting natural fissures to extract the massive block. Along the fissures, they fit iron wedges sandwiched between iron splints. Pounding on these wedges with iron-headed mallets as well as pushing on levers inserted elsewhere eventually releases the block.

    Very skilled work! An informative ending for Week 6...👣 96, 237
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  • İstiklal Caddesi

    22. oktober 2023, Tyrkia ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C

    Built initially during the late Ottoman era for Western embassy buildings, İstiklal Caddesi became a centre for international trade. Beginning in Taksim Square towards Galata Tower, today it is now 1.4km of continuous shops and cafés. Don't fancy the walk?

    🚊Ride it!
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  • Whirling Dervishes

    22. oktober 2023, Tyrkia ⋅ 🌙 21 °C

    A Sufi’s way of life is to love and be of service to people, deserting the ego and all illusion so that one can reach maturity and perfection, and finally reach Allah, the True, the Real. The Order of the Whirling Dervishes is one branch of the vast Sufi tradition of Islam 🕌

    While whirling him arms are open, his right hand directed to the sky ready to receive God’s beneficiance, looking to his left hand turn towards the earty, he turns from right to left around the heart. This is his way of conveying God’s spiritual gift to people ✨️

    Fabulous way to end Week 7... 👣
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  • Ayasofya Mosque

    23. oktober 2023, Tyrkia ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C

    Originally built in the 4th century as a Byzantine Catherdral, it was later converted into a Mosque during the Ottoman Empire. It was converted without destroying the interior Christian symbols ⛪️🕌

    You can see Islam and Christianity together; shared heritage of humanity 🤲❤️
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