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High life

How dare they sell the beaches where I played as a child

This is what the EU has done to Greece: forced us to flog the few assets nature gave us

16 August 2014

9:00 AM

16 August 2014

9:00 AM

 Porto Cheli

Nothing is moving, not a twig nor a leaf, and I find myself missing the cows, the mountains and the bad weather. The sun has become the enemy, a merciless foe who can be tolerated only when swimming, something I do for close to an hour a day. Nothing very strenuous, mind you, except for an all-out 50-stroke crawl towards the end.

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