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France entering La Belle Epoque

It’s probably stereotyping but the French can’t keep sex out of anything. Just can’t. Check the ads for […]

February 1, 2013 France, Rugby union

Ballad of the Lost Weekend

I am told there are people who travel to Six Nations games for the rugby. I cannot be […]

January 29, 2013 Boozing, Dublin, France, Ireland, Rugby union, Sport, Trinity College

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

“We’re all doomed”: cancer in numbers

Statistics are a nettled garden at the best of times but, as I am fund-raising for Cancer Research […]

January 26, 2013 Dryathlon 2013

Taking the Pledge: going dry for charity

Drat and double drat. Jonesy, aka my darling wife, has persuaded me that I should give up booze […]

January 1, 2013 Boozing, Dryathlon 2013

Courage under Fire

The death of the former England captain Tony Greig this weekend at the age of 66 has been […]

December 31, 2012 Cricket, Sport

Calexico-A-Go-Go

My old friend Georgos Voudiklaris was in town a week or so ago. We met at Le Mistral, […]

November 26, 2012 Culture, Music

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

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