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Corfu, now and then and Then and Now

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I'm here in Corfu trying to write a book about our big fat Greek gap year. It ought to be easy. I've lived it, taken a whole host of photos and made note after note after note. Hades, I've written some of it already. But it isn't easy. The problem is that so much happened in the last twelve months, I almost don't know where to start. Maybe the beginning. That's as good a place as any. I need to stop editing as I go along and just do it. Then I can edit afterwards. But it's easier said than done. My mind wanders to what's going in the book and what isn't. There is enough material for a sequel already, and maybe another one. I think about Corfu and how much it has changed over the years. And also how much it hasn't. There are some views of the island which haven't changed very much at all. And then some which have changed completely. This was brought home to me when I saw the cover of a book designed by a friend of mine, Jiannis Mou...