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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

Blood, sweat, boil and beers

Done. Dusted. Another half-marathon in the warmth of a May morning in north-east London. No records, no glory. […]

May 14, 2015 Running, Sport

Running for Digger, Fighting Cancer

Oops. Spent Sunday morning watching the London Marathon. Fantastic event. Elite runners pushing at the boundaries of world […]

April 28, 2015 Running, Sport

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

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