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Category Archive: Greece

Greek government chooses wrong target in closing down state broadcaster ERT

Greeks like to talk. So much so that it is possible to have ten or 15 Greeks sitting […]

June 12, 2013 Culture, Greece

When we were Kids

Patti Smith has been rattling around my birdcage for a few years now. Last week I read her […]

May 19, 2013 Books, Culture, Greece, Music

Face to face with cancer: Paul Johnston

I first met Paul Johnston when I was living in Athens; 2004 I think it was, in the […]

January 28, 2013 Books, Culture, Dryathlon 2013, Greece

Blowing the bridge at Gorgopotamos

On November 25, 1942, a combined operation between British special forces and the various factions of the Greek […]

November 20, 2012 Greece, History

Hence they will say that heroes fight like Greeks

I am going to make a confession. When I was a kid growing up I used to read […]

November 17, 2012 Greece, History

George Peponis: the Greek who skippered the Kangeroos

One day I will get around to writing a short history of Greek rugby. It will be littered […]

November 13, 2012 Greece, Greek sporting legends, Rugby union, Sport

The Agony and the Ecstasy

It is rare, even after more than 20 years of writing about international sport, that I have felt […]

November 9, 2012 Greece, Running, Sport

Katsidis aiming for Hatton’s achilles heel

Boxing loves a comeback, the high drama of the scarred and weary warrior clambering through the ropes in […]

September 27, 2012 Greece, Greek sporting legends, Sport

Next stop Sparta

Athens. Friday morning. Five am. The night sky is black, no hint of dawn but already there is […]

September 26, 2012 Greece, Running, Sport

Iliadis brings Georgian cheer to Greece

It wasn’t gold but it was a medal nonetheless; it didn’t have the hometown glamour of Bradley Wiggins […]

August 1, 2012 Georgia, Greece, Gymnastics, London 2012, Olympics, Sport

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