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Comments, views and selective links about books, music (especially the Blues), the arts, landscape and the environment in Greece (Corfu, the Ionian Islands, Epirus), the UK (Dorset/Wessex), the USA and the European Union. With occasional postings on current affairs and on other countries in which I've lived and worked: Australia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic and Sweden

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Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Tzoumerka Mountains, Epirus, Mountain Villages


Almost as stunning as the Zagori villages!

Both areas highly recommended.



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Jeremy Gardiner, Dorset Paintings


From his website
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Greece, ERT to resume broadcasting...soon



BBC news

Not yet...

Pressure from the court

On making tough decisions
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Monday, 17 June 2013

Dorset Prisons to Close?


Dorset Echo article about Portland and Dorchester prisons
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Stratton House, Dorchester, "Sale Agreed"


The former premises of West Dorset District Council, sold subject to contract.
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Dorset, Somerset, South West Cliff Path, Repairs Made


BBC News

"About 20 of the 30 land slips and cliff falls which affected the South West coast path have been repaired, a charity has said".

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      • Tzoumerka Mountains, Epirus, Mountain Villages
      • Jeremy Gardiner, Dorset Paintings
      • Greece, ERT to resume broadcasting...soon
      • Dorset Prisons to Close?
      • Stratton House, Dorchester, "Sale Agreed"
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Corfu Bluesman, Dorset Newsman
Mottos: I MEAN WELL. ET DOMI ET FORIS ("Both at home and abroad"). "Semi-nomadic": UK (West Country) and Greece (North-West). Before that Stockholm, Sydney, London, Prague, Thessaloniki, Nairobi, Addis Ababa. Author of "Corfu Blues", "The Ionian Islands and Epirus, A Cultural History" (2010), co-editor of "Swedish Reflections, from Beowulf to Bergman"; and "Dorset Voices" (Roving Press, April 2012). Chapter in "Greece and Britain Since 1945" (2010). The author of Corfu Blues is not responsible for the content of links or external sites.
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