Sparta
Peloponnese
1 March 2015
Dear friends
We first visited Camping Finikes in 2007 when it was newly
opened. We have returned often and have been saddened to experience its slow
decline. Since it is an interesting story in itself, and an allegory for the
deeper underlying Greek disease, we copy a report we have written about its
current condition.
So that you might find it in a form most suited to you, we
have copied the report below and added it to our
website at:
http://www.magbaztravels.com/content/view/1650/30/
The overall political and economic situation in Greece
remains fluid and is perhaps best summarised by an article in yesterday's
Guardian at:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/28/greece-poll-surge-syriza-alexis-tspiras
There has been little immediate success for Syriza in
their battle against the 'Troika', indeed in the short term they are having to
back off from many of the initial pledges we outlined in the earlier article we
circulated, and now on our website at:
http://www.magbaztravels.com/content/view/1635/30/
However, Syriza have helped to produce perturbations in
the otherwise solid and suited ranks of the ECB/IMF/EU. Just as the proverbial
butterfly flapping its wings in China could develop into a hurricane in the USA,
so the naive protestations of a few untied leftists in Athens could lead to the
shattering of Germany's renewed dreams of empire!
Barry and
Margaret
www.magbaztravels.com
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