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A Loving Farewell

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Grief is a fickle beast which never truly steps away, for which I am oddly grateful.

December 31, 2022 Corbeil-Essonnes, Greece, Spender

Pele’s Greek Odyssey

Word has just crept through from Brazil that the great, the very great, Pele has taken the long, […]

December 30, 2022 Greece, Sport

Found in Translation: the poetry in The Road to Sparta

In the documentary film The Road to Sparta, we took the slightly off-beam decision to turn to poetry […]

March 19, 2019 Books, Culture, Greece, Running, Spartathlon, Sport

Sport in Art in Ancient Greece

Heinrich is a special kind of guide. A trained archaeologist with the appropriate eye for detail and a […]

February 19, 2019 Culture, Greece, Greek sporting legends, History, Olympics, Running, Sport

Malcolm is On the Mend

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Five years ago, I wrote a review on this blog about a book called Malcolm is a Little […]

February 12, 2019 Culture, Film, Greece

Kissing the feet of Leonidas

When a runner completes the 246-kilometre Spartathlon he or she earns a rare privilege. A last stretch of […]

February 5, 2019 Culture, Film, Greece, History, Spartathlon, Sport

Book Review – The Road to Sparta by Dean Karnazes

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My first encounter with Dean Karnazes came in the early summer of 2014. I was about to embark […]

December 28, 2016 Book reviews, Books, Greece, Running, Spartathlon, Sport

First Night Nerves

It was inevitable there would be a few nerves. After two and a half years of hard work, […]

November 8, 2016 Culture, Dublin, Film, Greece, Running, Spartathlon, Sport, Trinity College

Stallings takes on the men for Oxford poetry chair

The literary world is aflush, it seems, with ruddy-cheeked excitement at the election for the next Oxford Professor […]

June 4, 2015 Books, Culture, Greece, USA

Book Review – Running and Stuff by James Adams

It was a busy weekend of sport; the end of the Premier League season, England winning a Test […]

May 26, 2015 Book reviews, Books, Greece, Running, Spartathlon, Sport

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