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Placidity of a Duck

I have admired many bottoms in my life. Glorious pear-shaped bottoms, apple & tomato-shaped bottoms even avocado bottoms.

Bottoms Up

Many years from now, our grandchildren will ask us what we did during the pandemic. What will we answer? At least those of us that survived the plague..

The Final Whistle!

Wayne Barnes the English referee from Gloucestershire will blow the whistle this Saturday at the Rugby World Cup final between the Springboks and the..

Freedom’s Athens

Pericles the great Athenian general and statesman was right when he praised the virtues of city life and said everything great comes from the city..

Pork or pig it’s all Greek to me!

We’re in the coastal suburb of Vouliagmeni which is the undisputed jewel in the Athens Riviera crown. A green suburb with..

The Mother of Cities

Athens is eternal. At once an alluring, maddening but captivating city. Layered and complex, it get’s under your skin. The Ottomans left Athens in ruins..