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January 27, 2004A Disquisition on Hellenic Philosophy and Drinking ShotsLate January To the best of my knowledge, nobody has yet come up with a better philosophy of life than "Eat, Drink and Be Merry." So this is what we do with our Saturday nights, and Preveza is a surprisingly...Read this update Posted by Barney on January 27, 2004 05:42 PM
Category: January 21, 2004Madwoman, monks, crazy Corfu rainJanuary, middle of – back after Christmas in the U.K. (May talk about that later, may not. Don’t hold your breath) Corfu for the weekend. Spending too long in Preveza probably doesn’t do great things for one’s sanity, and...Read this update Posted by Barney on January 21, 2004 10:24 PM
Category: January 12, 2004Santa Claus Is Coming To PrevezaChristmas Time Two thousand years after the birth of Christ, the Greeks have discovered Christmas. Oh, sure, they've always had the religious holiday, but in the Orthodox calendar it ranks some way below Easter, and the general feasting and jollity...Read this update Posted by Barney on January 12, 2004 06:50 PM
Category: January 09, 2004Citrus, Newtown, Philosophical MusingsDecember, Definitely Winter The TV is showing blizzards in the north and warning of force ten gales; the mountains are capped in snow, there are white horses on the usually calm waters of the Gulf and the windows shudder in...Read this update Posted by Barney on January 9, 2004 03:59 PM
Category: Cataclysmic Chaos. And Bondage.Early December "It's a Greek word, miss!" This is the refrain which Rachel hears constantly from her students, particularly the higher level ones. Interesting lexicological (Greek word, if it is a word) phenomenon (Greek word): the more sophisticated (Greek word),...Read this update Posted by Barney on January 9, 2004 03:56 PM
Category: Free radicalsShortly After November 17th November 17th is a highly charged date in Greece. Polytechniou commemorates the 20 or more students who were killed by the tanks of the right-wing junta during a peaceful protest at Athens Polytechnic on this...Read this update Posted by Barney on January 9, 2004 03:47 PM
Category: Here we go...Friday November the Somethingteenth This is a travelogue about staying in one place. Maybe that's an oxymoron, or maybe it's quantum physics - not travelling through space but through time. Whatever, for the next half a year or so,...Read this update Posted by Barney on January 9, 2004 03:35 PM
Category: Barney JeffriesBarney Jeffries was conceived in the rainforests of Papua New Guinea and born in Australia. After this promising start, however, he spent the next 20 years growing up in a small village in the south of England. Since then he's...Read this update |
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