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All Plain Sailing

~ A blog about the crunchy bits between dreaming and doing – and travel, writing, paraplegia and political economy and stuff

All Plain Sailing

Category Archives: Political economy

Thoughts and observations of an economic or political nature along the way

Sailor to Author

April 2, 2019

People have said that the little plug for The Umbrella Men at the foot of the last post (Criminal Activity) …

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Canaries in Thasos

July 10, 2015

They say that London is three meal-times from violent revolution, by which I think is meant that if for some …

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It’s all Greek to them

July 3, 2015

The man at the front of the queue turned, rolled his eyes and said something to the rest of us …

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Possibly the nicest people in the world

May 5, 2015

The deal was done. The non-stick scratch-resistant griddle thing with many magical properties was ours. The Mafiosi-faced man had explained …

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Flexibility in Sciacca

February 24, 2015

I arrived late, un-booked. ‘You can pay Agostino’, said the middle-aged yachties already on the bus, solid north-Europeans fleeing their …

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South and North

December 30, 2014

The bus from Licata to Agrigento left late.  Then the route took us – in a vehicle the size of …

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Efficient chaos in Tunisia

November 27, 2014

The usual taxi-touts at the airport exit.  I authoritatively wave them aside.  I have been briefed. Take the louage – …

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Public Services in Italy

November 19, 2014

We watched, spellbound, as she strolled slowly across the hot dusty Olbia square, her perfectly-formed derriere, her smoothly swaying haunches, …

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There should be a law

June 21, 2014

Only the tennis shoes and bike by the path told us that it was not a cadaver washed up and …

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Bullets might fly in the Algarve

November 27, 2013

Mrs C has something she calls ‘the Bullet’ (it’s the best brand, apparently) which communicates via a long cable with …

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