Saturday, August 24, 2024

In a Thessaloniki Market, the Butchers Warned Us About the Turks...

 Having crossed the Alps, we found ourselves in Yugoslavia and then in Greece, where the butchers in Thessaloniki warned us that the Turks would cut our heads off, which fortunately did not happen. Like H.C. Andersen – who visited Istanbul a century before us – we found the Turks friendly and generous. 






Read more in ”A Swede on the Hippie Trail” which will be available on Amazon.com on September 3.



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On This Day, 50 Years Ago, I and 40 Swedes Stepped Onto Two Buses Heading for India

50 years ago -- September 3, 1974 -- I and 40 other young and naïve Swedes entered two old Scania buses who were to take us from Stockholm t...