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Tsagarakis has Designs on the Parthenon Marbles

Spyridon Tsagarakis is perhaps best known as a fashion designer; his clothes can be found in the wardrobes […]

February 25, 2015 Culture, Greece, History

Notes from the Mountaintop

It has taken 114 years but now I feel, at last, I can look my grandfather in the […]

February 14, 2015 Sport

In a Corner of a Foreign Field: the sad tale of Varig Flight 820

Some time ago, in the dim and distant past that was the 1980s, I was in a Dublin […]

October 20, 2014 France, History, Trinity College

Long Day’s Journey into Night (and back into day again)

It was around 11 o’clock on Saturday morning when Dean Karnazes (right) slipped past the ruins of the temple […]

October 6, 2014 Culture, Film, Greece, Running, Spartathlon, Sport

The Rough and Rocky Road to Sparta

O O Read More

This is going to be interesting. Very interesting.  A test of mind and body. Sleep deprivation, hunger, inevitable […]

September 23, 2014 Culture, Film, Greece, Running, Spartathlon, Sport

Book Review – Ultra Marathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner by Dean Karnazes

Self-help books are all the rage. Titles like How to Write a Blog (must read that one when […]

July 17, 2014 Book reviews, Books, Greek sporting legends, Running, Sport

The Room

My aunt Ray Wolf, who died last month at the grand old age of 99, was a pretty […]

July 13, 2014 Short story, Spender

Obituary: Ray Wolf 1914-2014

Ray Wolf, the last of the grandchildren of Edward Spender, founder of the Western Morning News, has died […]

July 8, 2014 Culture, History, Spender

The Tragedy of Tregonhawke Bay

When I was a youngster, I was taken by my father to see a memorial at Tregonhawke on […]

June 9, 2014 History, Spender

Book Review – Malcolm is a Little Unwell by Malcolm Brabant

Malcolm Brabant seems to have been around forever, his mellifluous voice always coming through loud and clear on […]

May 21, 2014 Book reviews, Books, Greece

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