Brotherhood of Man

No, the 70s Eurovision winners haven't been sent to entertain the stranded. By all accounts throwing oneself into a lava flow is preferable. No, what I'm finding is that until the flight chaos every holidaymaker on this island was an individual, and now we are a community. In my hotel there are 5 sets of guests and we all know each other by first name and spend breakfast discussing updates and potential repatriation strategies. In town there are the same people in the Taverna each night and we greet each other like colleagues. Martha, the Taverna owner, is planning to introduce us to her mother-in-law in the matriarchal village as her international volcano family.

At times like this you see the very best of people. Today I let my iPhone out of my grasp for a while so my Danish friends here could Skype their family. Their conversation was whether they could fly to Vienna and then catch the train to Denmark.

With some southern airspace opening today we are now looking into how to travel overland. The nautical ideas tried yesterday were unsuccessful so now we are searching for terrestrial alternatives.

1. The Great Escape 1. The motorcar. This one appears cheap but not particularly spacious.




Although it may be easier to extract than this one:




2. The Great Escape 2 - a luxury motorhome



This one may be ditched in, erm, a ditch but it offers free boat transfers. Across the channel potentially?

3. The Great Escape 3. Coping with potential natural hazards - rockfalls and the like:




4. The Great Escape 4. Horsepower.



5. The Great Escape 5 - pedalpower.



6.The Great Escape 6. Desperation sets in.



The mop bucket has wheels and maybe we can set up some sort of propulsion system with the gas canisters? Would this be adversely affected by volcanic ash?

Oh, it's raining today too.

Yamas!
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