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Hitchhiking can set you free, even in a pandemic
Simon Calder
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The Sun and Sand Cafe is planted prettily on the beach just beside the eastern entrance to the Corinth Canal. At high noon on the final Sunday of October, I sipped the last sweet drops of a Greek coffee then walked through a pine-scented wood to the highway.
The next bus south along the road that shadows the shore of the Saronic Gulf was scheduled for teatime on Monday. I took up position beside a petrol station and extended my thumb.
Within a minute, I was sprinting towards the car that had pulled up 20m beyond. ....

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