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Three-wheelers in Greece

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Once again, old, old photos taken with a cheap camera, but I find the content a treasure so I put up with the poor quality.

I don’t know what brand of vehicle this is, but I wonder if it’s something that was built in a backyard workshop.  You can see that the vehicle up ahead is also a three-wheeler, but the blue one in the foreground looks like it has had some modifications.

One thing I wonder about is the stability of the vehicle. I can imagine that it isn’t particularly safe to go too fast around a corner or it could roll over.

Check out the license plate.

Several modes of transportation were popular.

 

Even the bus can have a mishap. The tools lying beside the flat tire tell the story. The driver has gone for help. Either that or he has left town. Perhaps in a three-wheeler. One less tire to go flat.

These photos were taken in Kalamata (known for its olives, although it should be known for its dogs that bark all night).

During both nights we spent in a campground in Kalamata in our VW van, once heading south and then, weeks later, heading north again, dogs in the neighbourhood barked for much of the night.

When I checked my journal that I kept in those days, I noticed that after I mentioned the dogs barking, I also made a comment about people walking around late at night. This seemed to be a common thing; women pushing their babies in strollers at 11 p.m., because it was at last cool enough to be outside. So maybe that’s what the dogs were barking at – all the people going for walks at night.

 

 

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31 thoughts on “Three-wheelers in Greece

  1. Lynette d'Arty-Cross's avatar

    Dogs barking at night was part of my experience of living in NWT, especially when the Aurora was going. I remember scenes like yours from my visits to Greece. I love that licence “plate.” Sometimes you have to make do, that’s all there is to it!

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  2. Grant at Tame Your Book's avatar

    Love old photos, Anneli, and how they reunite us with fond memories of past adventures.

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  3. John's avatar

    Oh boy, the dogs would make me crazy, I despise barking mutts! Don’t like dogs much these days… Gimme a cat! I’d say those karts were home brew designs.

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  4. belindagroverphotography's avatar

    Old photos are great, they hold so many memories. I love that licence plate 😊

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  5. Jacqui Murray's avatar

    Oh you are an adventurous soul! Your homemade car brought to mind Eustice Conway on History Channel’s Mountain Men. He showed viewers how he converted his gas powered car (because he couldn’t afford gas) to run on wood. Talk about homemade–but it worked!

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  6. Writing to Freedom's avatar

    The barking dogs would drive me crazy and inhibit my sleep. Cute photos and homegrown transportation!

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  7. Klausbernd's avatar

    Dear Anneli
    Yes, people and even children go around at night because it’s incredibly hot during the day. We noticed this as well when Kb had to live in Greece.
    We heard about an accident of a three-wheeler which rolled over on a sharp bend. Unfortunately, people who were sitting on the loading area got badly injured.
    Thanks for showing your pictures
    The Fab Four of Cley
    🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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  8. Ursula's avatar

    “Anderes Land, andere Sitten”. We loved the way they spend the (finally) cool nights outside. We didn´t go along with them and suffered in bed, listened to the noises and barking dogs, just stupid tourists! Thanks for sharing those pics. They brought me right back to Greece.

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  9. Lori's avatar

    Seems disorderly. I remember your stories about driving in that van around Europe. Did you drive all the way to Greece from Europe? There were a lot of war-torn countries north of Greece. That must’ve been a trip for a lifetime for you two.

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  10. Lori's avatar

    I just realized I forgot to Delete the word “was” in my comment above. I started to ask something else and then stopped but forgot to delete it. 🤦‍♀️

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    • wordsfromanneli's avatar

      No problem. Fixed it. Our trip was before the upheaval in Yugoslavia. It was still called Yugoslavia when we drove through it. Not a friendly place though, except for some country folk, who were the only ones to smile at us. Everyone else looked glum and unhappy and downright unfriendly. I guess they were very unhappy with how things were going in their country.

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      • Lori's avatar

        Interesting. So you actually drove through all that area to get to Greece?

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        • wordsfromanneli's avatar

          We landed in London, bought a van in Amsterdam, drove it through Germany and Switzerland, and half way down Italy, took the ferry to Greece (2 nights, 3 days) and drove down the west coast of Greece. A couple of months later we drove back north on the east side of Greece, up through Yugoslavia, Austria, and Germany. Sold the van there and took the bus to Paris and then to St. Malo and the ferry back to the UK. Flew from London to Hawaii with stops in Chicago and San Francisco. After a few weeks on Kauai we flew back to Honolulu and back to the Queen Charlotte Islands via Vancouver. We’d been gone for five months. Fun times.

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  11. Lauren Scott, Author's avatar

    This post is entertaining with not only the 3-wheelers, but you camping in your van in olive country. I love those olives, but dogs barking all night? Not so much, and yet, you make a good point about people walking around at night. Stimulation for the dogs. 🙂

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    • wordsfromanneli's avatar

      Night life was pretty quiet there except for the dogs, and that was probably because they were disturbed by people walking by so late at night. I remember mothers pushing little kids in strollers, singing softly to them. It was a part of the day (night) when the air was a perfect temperature, and the only reasonable time to go out for a walk. Different times then. Now you’d be taking your life in your hands to go out for a lonely walk with your toddler after 11 p.m. But back then it was quite safe.

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