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Please come on holiday to poor, broken Greece. It needs you

Despite the sadness, it feels very safe here. Even the riot police are relaxed, cheerfully feeding the birds

18 July 2015

9:00 AM

18 July 2015

9:00 AM

At the weekend, I tried — and failed — to get some money out of an empty cashpoint near Omonia Square. The Eurobank cashpoint was covered in fresh anti-German graffiti: ‘No to the new German fascism,’ it read in Greek, ‘No to the “dosilogous”.’ That’s the Greek for Nazi collaborators in the war.

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