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Joel | Follow the Idiot - Part 456

Kos-ting Towards Cannes

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking, Turkey, Where is the idiot | 8 Comments

Why would The Idiot flee Ephesus in Turkey (http://bit.ly/mjxYaQ), which merits its acclaim as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, for the Greek island of Kos (http://bit.ly/mjKK7c)? After all, he could have spent many more hours analyzing the plumbing connecting the forty-nine side-by-side latrines (FYI #49 is not the

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Sailing Into Turkey

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking, Where is the idiot | 5 Comments

The Idiot isn’t completely stupid. He finally took a short break from his arduous and agonizing 8,403-kilometer MedTrek to leisurely and luxuriously sail on (instead of walk around) the Mediterranean Sea near the Greek island of Kos and Turkey’s Gulf of Gokova. The Idiot was a grateful guest on a 38-foot Sunsail catamaran

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Mediterranean Time Travel

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking, Turkey, Where is the idiot | 2 Comments

Time travel is easy for a MedTrekker. The Idiot left behind Crete’s intriguing world of Zeus’ caves, Minoan culture, gorge-ous countryside, an Academy Award winner and a hip archeologist by taking a ferry to Rhodes, the largest island in the Dodecanese archipelago in the eastern Aegean Sea. He was instantaneously transplanted to the

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Coming Alive In Crete’s Shadowy “Gorge Of Death”

Posted on May 21, 2011 by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking, Where is the idiot | 7 Comments

The Idiot was particularly careful, while MedTrekking through the notorious Gorge of Death near Zakros in eastern Crete, to conscientiously check out every cave, cranny, crevice and shadow. This was not because he had suddenly developed an interest in bats, bones and/or dead body parts (the gorge got its name because the

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Cruising The Cretan Coast

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Greece, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking, Where is the idiot | 4 Comments

The Idiot didn’t come to Crete looking for sandy beaches. That was wise because Greece’s largest island features many more bouldery, cliffy, gravelly, mountainy, rocky, pebbly and stony (you get the idea) patches of seaside than strips of fine sand. [caption id=”attachment_2340″ align=”aligncenter”

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The Colossal Cretan Cave Conundrum

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Idiotic Musings, Mediterranean Pix, Where is the idiot | 6 Comments

The Idiot was recently told by the usually trustworthy goddess Athena that her father Zeus was definitely born in the remote and uncommercialized Idaian cave above the Nida plateau on Mount Ida in Crete (http://bit.ly/j9DYOo). But there’s academic, archeological and popular contention that the “king of all gods, men and the world”

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