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July 08, 2006

Monsters Mystics and Magicians pt.3

Wrong again: Andros does have a vampire tradition. I was leafing through Theodore Bent's classic travel book about the Cyclades...

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June 02, 2006

JD Salinger and all that

It seems that the great American author J.D. Salinger once worked in the meat factory which until very recently lurked...

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May 17, 2006

Bye Bye Bydgoszcz, Hello Ljubljana?

I am delighted to say that I have accepted a teaching position in Ljubljana for next year. It begins in...

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February 11, 2006

Monsters, mystics and magicians, part two

I've just been reading some other people's blogs and I think they fall into two types. The types I like...

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February 10, 2006

Monsters, mystics and magicians, part one

My interest in human monsters is, of course, academic. I am not a vampire - the one Polish dish I...

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January 30, 2006

The Katowice disaster

The Katowice disaster in the South-West of Poland has brought home the point about not building houses with flat roofs...

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January 29, 2006

Radio Pik again

In case of confusion, which is unlikely - how many people involved with the dictation, let alone Radio Pik, have...

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January 27, 2006

Radio Pik interview

I heard myself on Radio Pik recently and for anyone who has been folowing my blog, you will know that...

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An old American friend writes

So, here is an advantage of contributing stories to Bootsnall, and getting them viewed. A girl I knew very well...

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January 25, 2006

An old Sicilian friend writes

Maria Luisa, star of the of the opening of one of my stories for BNA, Dark Heart of a Beautiful...

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January 12, 2006

A recent diversion

I've just been interviewed by Polish PIK Radio (along with another TEFL teacher) to comment about life here, and we...

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