Tag Archive | rhodes
The Drawn Record…1
Just the other week and by the miracle of this web site I re-made my acquaintance with Richard, or Burty, or “The Lad” as we came to know him in those halcyon days of the 1970s when the sun shone all day, beer was thruppence a pint, you could get served in pubs even if [...]
The Greek tablecloth
It was our last day in Rhodes, we scoured the market for gifts to take home to family, Richard and I, traveller pals we were, holidaying in Greece in 1979 at a time when most wouldn’t venture beyond Whitley Bay, “Rhodes?” they’d said to me with puzzled faces when I told them at work, “Where’s [...]
Rhodes Town – a travelogue of sorts
The Greek island of Rhodes was a magical place in ’79, when I look now at the holiday brochures I see modern hotels and all the garbage they bring with them, in ’79 you stayed in old hotels that had been in or around the old walled town since the Knights Templar established the place [...]
The one about the emergency poo..
May 1979. While we were holidaying on the Greek island of Rhodos we had a day of panic poos. You think its only young children who wait until they are as far away from the nearest public toilet as they can possibly be before shouting out at the top of their voice “daddy/mummy I WANT [...]
The other one about cockroachs
May 1979, Richard, an old school friend, had a marvelous idea for a holiday – “Rhodes” he said, he’d flown over the island on his return from an Israeli kibbutz the year before (when it was a trendy student thing to spend your summer working for no wages on a kibbutz) and he thought the [...]
