Summertime Memories

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  1. Holly Saunders

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    I remember sitting down on a newly tarred road in my best sunday dress, I was probably about 4, oooooh the outcry!!!!!
     
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    I filled one summer holiday on my 'rite of passage' UK/European working holiday by touring Greece and Germany. Started off badly when we had our suitcases stolen in Genoa and then our big end went on our way to Rome. So it was whatever transport and on foot for us after that. I recall walking to Portofino.. and overlooking the Mediterranean.. breathtaking. Luck shone on us soon after when we hitched a ride with a German couple who were heading for Greece .. we camped on a nudist beach on Corfo for a week..sipping ouzo, dipping in the clear, clean Med and partying. Wild and fun days that summer.
     
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    I love Corfu... but I won't go back for the same reason I won't go back to Kos, or Rhodes!! Cats everywhere..... !! Ugh!!
     
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    The next summer we decided to see some of England and Scotland so we purchased a Combi van kitted it out ..four of us.. two men two women.. all Aussies. Everything went fine for the first two days but on the third day just outside of Aberdeen the big end went. My second holiday spoilt by the failings of the internal combustion engine.. and the second big end too. As we found ourselves short of sufficient funds as all our money was tired up in the Combi, we were forced to hitch back to London. I slept on straw in a barn the two nites before arriving back.. miserable and rather angry that our expected enjoyable driving holiday ended a dud.
     
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    I found an old postcard of Fayette that I had. It was a good place for three twelve-year-olds to camp out for a few days. All of the buildings were open, and only one family came there by car while we were there, so we had the place to ourselves.

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