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Ghost Greece
There are certain places we know only half as well, if not only through their ghosts of the past. Thus, in keeping with the title I chose for my 2013 book on the Greek crisis: “Ghost Greece,” one of the characteristics of my excursions exploring this beautiful country is that it remains decidedly… somewhat ghostly, in these times.
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Frappé coffee
Visitors to Greece of a certain generation, once they arrive at Athens airport, or otherwise on board the first ferry to the islands, order their first frappé coffee. And the adventure begins!
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Our pediatrician photographer
The past, of which we are otherwise the living bearers, is formed of places and nodes, consubstantial with our memory. For the historian Pierre Nora, born in 1931, these places of memory are very precisely inscribed in “his new history”, a statement which certainly forms in itself a specialist concept, which must nevertheless be admitted to be very accurate.
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Downtime
In Greece, the first day of May is deeply linked to the flowering of nature, the fertility of the Earth, the irrevocable end of winter and the welcome of the sunny and warm days that follow.
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Iconostases
A very typical element of the Greek road network is the iconostasis at the side of the road, which one encounters almost repeatedly, bend after bend.
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Unsubmissive Mani
Greece Otherwise is, above all, a journey through time, as well as through landscapes, even humanized spaces, those that we believe have been forgotten for some time. A Greek country… without visitors, without tourists, and sometimes even without inhabitants. As in this month of April in Mani, a region of the Peloponnese that is nevertheless very well known.