Let’s talk about Omonia. You know Omonia? No, it’s
not a disease. It’s a square in Athens. Look it up!
Anyway, I’m not going mad. These past two weeks I
have been reading travel adventure See You In Omonia. The book is a re-telling
of veteran journalist Doug Archibald’s hitch hiking adventure to Greece with
his friend Fred.
This is the first time I have reviewed a book by
someone I know. If you know Doug Archibald you’ll know that he has a million
stories to tell and this is only one of them and they’re all good.
Anyway, our story starts with how Doug met Fred.
Basically it involved Doug attending court in his reporter capacity and writing
an article about Fred who was in the dock. Court is a bit of an unusual place
to make a friend, especially when you’re a journalist but the two of them
seemed to hit it off. Some months later Doug decided to travel with Fred on a
whim when they were in London.
See You In Omonia then recounts the travels of the
pair as they cross Europe by holding their thumbs out and the interesting and
often larger-than-life characters that they meet along the way. Such is the
unpredictability of hitch hiking that the pair inevitably end up in a few sticky
situations and a series of funny but true misadventures along the way.
If you love to travel or used to do it in the
60s, then this is definitely one for you.
See You In Omonia gets 7/10 and is available here
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