18th July : The Grand Tour
My trustee Australian bush hat Hi - Welcome to my cultural tour through Western Europe. If you have a few minutes a day between the 18th July and mid-November please join me on my four part "Grand Tour" across Western Europe. If you are enjoying the blog, please press the " Follow " button and pass on the URL & let me know what you are enjoying; if not enjoying it, please let me know why. Background to this journey: 1974 Alphasud Around Easter 1975 I started a trip that would have seen me travel to Israel and with a travel companion, cross Europe from Greece, through Italy, France, Spain & eventually England. Unfortunately life, in the shape of a strike by Olympic Airways staff in Athens, and a driver of an Alphasud offering a lift to two young intrepid hitchhikers, intervened and the remainder of that trip had to be, basically, side-lined. Me in 1975 Hillel the Elder In retrospect, the events of tha...