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Continue reading →: Across the AdriaticJust a quick catch up on the last couple of days in which I’ve moved on from Greece to Italy. I spent 70 days in Greece all together, and would select the Pindos mountains as the area I most enjoyed. Other than the Mani, the coastal areas were as unsuited…
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Continue reading →: Summer Fishing in Lapland by Juhani Karila
(translated from the Finnish by Lola Rogers) Isn’t it good when the book you pick up at 8 in the morning on New Year’s Day will figure as one of the best of the year.. Elina Ylijaako must return to her hometown in a remote part of northwestern Finland each…
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Continue reading →: Last days in Greece
Good literature is a powerful thing. It can inspire, it can change your mood, it can change your life, even if only in the short term. This morning I was reading the book I mentioned yesterday, Summer Fishing In Lapland. It’s a novel, and suffice to say for now, that…
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Continue reading →: Slowly Moving North
I suppose it was inevitable that I would discover the most appealing area of the Peloponnese when my time is limited; I have the ferry to Italy on Wednesday, so am gradually moving north to Igoumenitsa. The two days I have spent in the Neda valley villages have made me…
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Continue reading →: Best Films and TV of 2023
Best Films As Bestas or The Beasts (Spain) Mark or Darkling (Kosovo) Asteroid City The Eight Mountains – FILM OF THE YEAR Pearl Charcoal (Argentina / Brazil) La Montagne or The Mountain (France) When Evil Lurks (Argentina) Utama (Bolviia) Hit The Road (Iran) Godland (Denmark) Funny Pages Door Mouse War…
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Continue reading →: Books of the Year 2023
Top Ten Books of This Year Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal (France)The Romantic by William Boyd Quinn by Em Strang Shy by Max Porter Of Cattle and Men by Ana Paula Maia (Brazil) translated by Zoë Perry Nothing Left To Fear From Hell by Alan Warner The Strangers by Jon…
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Continue reading →: Wicked Weeds: A Zombie Novel by Pedro Cabiya
translated from the Spanish (Dominican Republic) by Jessica Ernst Powell This is not a novel to take on if all the reader seeks is dismembered limbs, rotting flesh and devoured brains. Those aspects are present, but in the background as to the fore is Caribbean folklore, science, wit and wily…
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Continue reading →: Back In The High Life Again..It is good to be back in the mountains again after my self imposed exile of two weeks. It was getting to the stage when I was getting withdrawal symptoms. I had thought Cape Kitries was a good stopover, but there was a lot of litter and rubbish around, and…
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Continue reading →: Film Festival – Days 4 to 6
Next into my own private film festival was a German film, their entry to to Oscars next year, called Das Lehrerzimmer, or, The Teacher’s Lounge. It concerns a young ambitious teacher, Carla Novak, in her first job at a High School encountering a zero tolerance approach to discipline, authorised searches…
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Continue reading →: North from the ManiI drove north towards Kalamata this morning after two weeks on the Mani peninsula. Its rugged wilderness has etched its place into my memory, there is nowhere quite like it. It does though, offering limited opportunities for hiking, due to the heat in the summer months, but also the thorny…
To live more widely
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Where is Andy?
I was so much older then…
Quote of the Week
Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, ‘What road do I take?’ The cat asked, ‘Where do you want to go?’ ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it really doesn’t matter, does it?’
Lewis Carroll
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