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Epitaph
Good Friday. The Epitaphios has already been prepared. Christ is dead. Throughout Greece, as elsewhere in the Orthodox world, his icon, or more precisely his shroud—a large, luxuriously decorated embroidered cloth—is displayed.
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Donation
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Greek Spring
The Greek Spring is said to be exceptional, namely cool for the season, windy and rainy. The “postcard” scene is there nonetheless, like the small trawler named Saint-Nicolas, moored opposite the island of Poros.
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Once upon a time in Lesbos
Those who travelled to the Greek islands up until the 1970s could still boast of having encountered their countless primal truths, inevitably brought from the seas. If possible, they even penetrated the soul of the country beyond its unalterable archaeological veneer.
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Orient Complicated
We will remember the “complicated Orient,” a famous phrase by Charles de Gaulle, whose subject was not, from the outset, the Orient itself, but rather how the general conceived his strategic approach at the time.
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Courtesans in Dubai
Greek spring already, mild weather, it would seem that all is well in the land of Hermes Psychopomp. And yet.
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To die a hero
In this perilous Greek winter, the Pindus massif in Thessaly has already been draped in a thick blanket of snow, “immaculate and silent as it should be” according to visitors!