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 […]
Berlin: Is there anything left from the old GDR?
The first time I went to Berlin was August 1989 and the Wall was still up. I remember changing 25 DM at a rate 1:1, crossing into East Berlin at Checkpoint Charlie, spending one complete day in the East, eating lunch, dinner, paying entrance for museums, spending money on transport and still being left with […]
Extra section cut from Rainbow Diary
I recently saw the Bang Bang Club , an absolutely fantastic movie based on the life of four photographers during South Africa’s Civil War in the early 1990s. I’d read the book before I wrote Rainbow Diary but for editorial reasons the relevant sections were cut. So here they are restored. Note – if you […]