COLLEGE STUDENT RIDES BIKE HOME, FROM SCOTLAND TO GREECE

20-year-old college student Kleon Papadimitriou couldn’t catch a flight from his college in Scotland to his home in Greece because of the coronavirus shutdown. So, he rode his bike. It was a 48-day, 2,175-mile journey that began May 10 and took him through England, Holland, Germany, Austria and Italy before wrapping up at parents’ house in Greece on June 29. During that period, Papadimitriou said he rode 35 to 75 miles per day, and subsisted on a diet of sardines and bread while spending overnights camped out in the woods. Papadimitriou said his parents — adventurers in their own youths — had only reluctantly supported the trip after he agreed to download an app that allowed them to track him at all times.
* And … now it’s time to head back for the new semester.
* A diet of sardines and bread. He wouldn’t have had to worry about social distancing – no one would come near him.
* Doesn’t sound too hard. Scotland to Greece is all downhill, right?
* Although biking across the English Channel was kind of a pain.
* How many times during that trip do you think he had the “I’m back in school and forgot to take the test!” dream?