Golfers are a peculiar breed. They live and breathe the game, curse it, hail it, read every book […]
Category Archive: Culture
There is a moment in the movie Big Fat Greek Wedding when Gus Portokalos, the father, explains how […]
Greeks like to talk. So much so that it is possible to have ten or 15 Greeks sitting […]
If Steve Earle is an artist who has only recently tripped the light fandango across my musical dance […]
A few years ago when I lived in Athens, gigging was something of an everyday event, the invitations […]
Patti Smith has been rattling around my birdcage for a few years now. Last week I read her […]
It’s a strange day when you head off for a quiet walk in the country to track the […]
I don’t remember the first crime novel I ever read – probably something by Enid Blyton – but […]
I first met Paul Johnston when I was living in Athens; 2004 I think it was, in the […]
My old friend Georgos Voudiklaris was in town a week or so ago. We met at Le Mistral, […]