There is resignation down the phone when I talk to friends who live in Greece. The incredulity of the voices at the other end is palpable. Older relatives are quick to remember the leaner times of the 1940s and the 1950s – and shudder. It seems to them that the image with which they have […]
The Top 12 Films with Laughably Wrong Geography
Last night I watched The Omen (1976) for the first time and was quite surprised at what passed for horror in the 1970s as well as how tinny the cars looked. But what made me sit up and tweet my dismay was the assertion that Megiddo (Biblical Armageddon) was south of Jerusalem. Well, I thought […]
Greek Comedy: Paying Tax
This is the third in a series of posts about Greek woes after Greek Myths Part 1 and Why Is Coffee So Expensive in Greece. Unlike the sympathetic previous articles, this makes uncomfortable reading for a Greek. Just to recap: the reason Greece is in such a mess is threefold: the euro allowed the country […]