Reassuring words from Greece

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The Prime Minister insists that he is not going to let Greece become "an unfenced, untended vineyard". The country is focused, he says, not disorientated.

Full article and quotation, Kathimerini (Greek)

On another occasion, the Prime Minister said that "in a nutshell, we are changing Greece at home and we are rebranding it abroad".

Euronews Interview  with George Papandreou: "The Future of Greece" (in English).

Worth watching the video interview. George Papandreou is always highly articulate in English and skilled at "rebranding". The interview covers issues like stereotyping, transparency, trust, tax evasion, tax havens, governance, recession, reform and change. "We are not THE problem", argues the former PM.

Corfu resident Richard Pine, writing in the Irish Times, says "the gap is closing".

Reuters on the visit of Chancellor Merkel to Athens

Bermuda News; Books about Bermuda

Always pleased to read such news items from Bermuda

Books about Bermuda

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A potential book cover? 

Problem is: no title, no book.

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Packing and moving are some of the most stressful of experiences:

I've moved 32 times in my peripatetic life.

It gets harder each time.

Now living without a fridge.

A salutary reminder of bygone days.

Bridport Arts Centre, Dorset Voices, 10 October

A reminder of this Roving Press Dorset Voices event, to be held at Waterstones Bookshop, Bridport, on 10 October, 6pm.

SISI ON CORFU, Exhibition

Empress Elizabeth of Austria on Corfu