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Diary Australia

Diary

26 April 2014

9:00 AM

26 April 2014

9:00 AM

It’s not often you have a foretaste of paradise. Recently I spent a month in Europe — the UK, Ireland, France and Belgium. It was all very enjoyable. I like a Gothic cathedral as much as the next man. But whenever I spend any serious time in Europe, I feel confirmed in the wisdom of having made my career, such as it is, in and about Asia.

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Greg Sheridan is foreign editor of the Australian.

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