Corfu Blues and Global Views

Music, Literature, the Visual Arts, Landscape, Current Affairs, Dorset, Greece. Global scope. RECENT BOOKS: WORDS ON THE TABLE (207 Poems), READING THE SIGNS (111 Poems), THIS SPINNING WORLD (43 stories). See Amazon author page for more. ResearchGate profile: www.researchgate.net/profile/Jim_Potts2 YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrHighway49/videos

Sunday, 17 February 2019

Evictions in Athens? Golden Visa incentive to AirBnB investors

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From Yannis-Orestis Papadimitriou, The Telegraph The Sunday Telegraph has apparently learned that, "a Greek government scheme that ...

Corfu: A Nightmarish Summer to Come, Dionisis Mamalos; «Εφιαλτικό το καλοκαίρι που έρχεται…». Waste Management Problems

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From Corfu TV News   (ΔΙΟΝΥΣΗΣ ΜΑΜΑΛΟΣ | 17 ΦΕΒ, 2019) «Εφιαλτικό το καλοκαίρι που έρχεται…», γράφει ο Διονύσης Μάμαλος... « Και μην βι...

The Cove House Inn, Chiswell, Portland, Dorset

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An eighteenth-century public house .  A great place for a drink, a meal or a stroll! Part of the old stone wall inside A...

Anglo-Saxons: Immigrants in a diverse Postcolonial Society; Beowulf as Diaspora Storytelling; Decolonising the Curriculum

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An interesting article by Mark Bridge in The Times, February 16, 2019; "Anglo-Saxons rebranded as migrant success story" "...
Saturday, 16 February 2019

Weymouth's Seaside Heritage; Amusement Arcades; Penny-in-the-Slot and Coin Push Machines; Claw Cranes

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When I was a kid on a school-holiday day-trip from Castle Cary, I used to love playing the penny slot machines and the coin push machines i...
Thursday, 14 February 2019

Red Cross Store; Food Banks

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A song I was listening to on my iPod when out walking just now. It made me think of food banks, of Fred McDowell and Amber Rudd...a str...
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Author of Words on the Table (207 poems); This Spinning World (45 Stories), Colenso Books; Reading the Signs (environmental poems); Corfu Blues (poems and essays); The Ionian Islands and Epirus, A Cultural History (Signal Books, Oxford, and OUP, USA, 2010); co-editor of Swedish Reflections, from Beowulf to Bergman; Dorset Voices (Roving Press, April 2012). Chapter in Greece and Britain Since 1945 (2010). Two chapters in The Ionian Islands: Aspects of their History and Culture, ed. Anthony Hirst and Patrick Sammon, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 3) Grockles and Locals: Mutual Perceptions and the Reciprocal Gaze, A Corfu Case Study (40 page chapter for US book Tourism and Identity (Transaction Publishers, ed Gabriel Ricci, 2015). NB - The author of Corfu Blues is not responsible for the content of links or external sites.
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