Here are some useful and/or connected web addresses, many belonging to friends:
The Peloponnese and Pindos Way, a long-distance walk across the mountains from the north of Greece to the south: thepindosway.com and thepeloponneseway.com.
Emma Neuberg, artist (and my daughter): www.emmaneuberg.com.
Lycabettus Press, publisher of books about Greece: www.lycabettus.com.
The Hellenic Bookservice, 49-51 Fortess Rd, London NW1 1AD, stockists of all things written and Greek: www.hellenicbooks.com.
Cicerone Press, publisher of walking and mountaineering guides: www.cicerone.co.uk.
Kate Clow, creator of Turkey’s first long-distance walks, The Lycian Way or Likya yolu and St Paul’s Way, and author of the best guide to the beautiful Kaçkar mountains on the shore of the Black Sea: www.lycianway.com.
Alastair Humphreys, author of Moods of Future Joys and Thunder and Sunshine, the story of his epic round-the-world cycle ride; adventurer and motivational speaker: www.alastairhumphreys.com.
Paul Deegan, climber (Everest summiteer), author of the BMC’s The Mountain Traveller’s Handbook and motivational speaker: www.pauldeegan.com.
Jonathan Peat, walker and tour organiser in France and Greece: www.jonathanstours.com.
Martin Hartley, wonderful photographer of wild and faraway places: www.martinhartley.com.
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Hi Tim,
I am interested in hiking the Peloponnese and Pindos Way. The times I would be able to make this trek would be around August to October. I have heard that Greek hunting season is right around this time. Is this true? and If so is it still safe to make the trek? Your insight would be immensely helpful in planning my trip.
Thanks,
Thad
Just noticed your message. Did I reply? Very sorry if I didn’t. You do not need to worry about hunting.I always carry a whistle anyway and if I think there might be someone with a gun who does not know I am around I blow HARD!
Thad, it is you . I had not realised! I have had to give up my own trip through illness. Damn it!
Hi Tim,
I wanted to tell you how much I have enjoyed reading your book about your son. Our son who is 20 now was diagnosed a few years ago with schizophrenia. It has been a long rough road with still no relief in sight. Your wording of what you have gone through rings true for me, especially what you wrote on page 29. The feelings of a parent who has to watch their child can be so overwhelming and at times feels hopeless. You feel so isolated at times. Thanks so much for writing this book.
Angie Barden
Dear Angie, I have only now – May 19th – found your Dec 30th message to me about the schizophrenia book. It is always a pleasure to hear that what I have written was a help for someone. It is a truly awful illness. My son has been ill for thirty years now. He is okay, without being really able to look after himself. He spends most days with me. I cook and clean for him. He is well enough physically, thank God, although he smokes like a chimney, but is terribly lonely and bored much of the time. It may be true that some people “recover” in some meaningful way, but it has not happened for my son or at least not in any sense that I would consider meaningful. And I feel quite angry about this whole “recovery” movement. I think it has simply allowed the “system” to avoid taking serious chronic illness like schizophrenia, bi-polar etc seriously. After all if everyone is now “on a journey of recovery,” well, it can’t be all that serious, can it?! There is endless talk about “mental health problems,” especially now as people face all kinds of distressing, anxiety-making situations like losing jobs, not having money to pay the rent…Horrible and terrifying as these experiences are, they are not illnesses. Schizophrenia is an illness, not a “problem.”
I hope things are not too bad for you and your son. It is, I am afraid, a long and exhausting haul, but if my experience is anything to go by, things do get a little better time. My son has learnt to manage himself better and I have learnt to manage him better. A dear friend, with some experience of schizophrenia, told me when my son was first ill: “You have to remember, when your son is impossible, angry, violent, rude, it is not him who is doing it. He loves you and needs you. It is the illness.” And my son himself says that to me now. “I
Don’t be upset. It is just my schizophrenia, Dad.” Try to remember that, when times are bad. And I am sure that, if even there is no cure, your continuing love and help are a great support for your son and in the end help him to be at least better. Courage, they say in French. We need it!
Incidentally, my email is trp.salmon@gmail.com.