Italy, Greece: Travel Sketches
By Carl Reader
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These sketches were written and published on the Internet over twenty years ago after the author traveled to Italy and Greece on a whim of discovery. Instead of being informative in telling where to eat and what to see or where to stay, they detail experiences that are as varied and diverse as the countries in which the experiences originated. One sketch muses on the bull-jumpers of Crete, while another talks of an inherited taste for wild mushrooms. You'll discover the Vatican workout, and travel from Italy to Greece under the stars on a ferry boat. Prepare for the unusual, the eccentric and a slightly different point-of-view.
Carl Reader
Carl Reader trained as a journalist at Temple University and has worked as a reporter, photographer and editor in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Montana. He's published short stories in literary magazines and on the Internet and has self-published a children's Christmas story called THE TWELFTH ELF OF KINDNESS.That book was partially published in Russia under the Sister Cities program. He's also self-published a novella called THE PERSECUTION OF WILLIAM PENN, which has been well-received in several college libraries. He works as a professional photographer and freelance writer.
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Italy, Greece - Carl Reader
Italy, Greece – Travel Sketches
By
Carl Reader
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Copyright 2014 Carl Reader
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Table of Contents
Overnight to Corfu
Kitsch
The Explosive, Breezy Lipari Islands
The Bull-jumpers of Crete
An Inherited Taste
The Eccentrics of Perugia
The Vatican Workout
Passeggiata
Overnight to Corfu
If you've got a hankering to wander around the Greek islands, one of the best ways to start to do so is by overnight ferry from Brindisi, Italy, to Corfu.
It takes a strong, young back – or an old, foolish one – to purchase a cheap deck ticket and sleep under the stars on one of these ferries, but the trip across the Adriatic Sea and the dawn beyond it are worth it.
From the docks at Brindisi you can join the hordes of backpackers entering through the back of the ship, while the packs of dock dogs beg for food all around your feet. Feed the poor starving critters and move on.
The lucky ones boarding the boat are those with motorcycles. They get to pull their bikes into the cargo hull through which you have to pass to get to the decks above before anyone, and later they get drive off of the ship and go wherever they will while you're still slogging along on foot.
The ship gets underway just before dark, and since you've bought the cheapest ticket, deck passage, it's up to you to find a spot on the upper deck and settle in.
It gets to be an impromptu party up there.
The sleeping bags are rolled out below the smoke stacks and onto the deck chairs – for those lucky enough to make the climb up through the bowels of the ship quickly enough to claim a deck chair. You can make friends easily, if you speak another language or your potential friends speak English, but you can make friends anyway as someone takes out a guitar and strums it and sings. It can be incredibly cold at sea at night, so you get in your sleeping bag early or drape it over your shoulders. You can stay where you are all night, listening late to the sounds of the guitars, or you can wander around the ship. Downstairs are cabins for sleeping and a bar filled with characters straight out of Zorba the Greek. Smoke fills the bar and everybody – including some of the women –