27 AUGUST 1988, page 37

High Life

Papa croc Taki know it sounds crazy, but this is the ideal time to visit the Big Olive. During the last two weeks of August the great mass of Athens-dwellers flees its grotesque......

Low Life

Ice cold in Lambourn Jeffrey Bernard I returned to Lambourn valley last weekend with some trepidation. The place holds some bad memories for me. Four car crashes and one wife......

Home Life

Frites with everything Alice Thomas Ellis was sitting on a boat the other day, wondering about the wisdom of this and debating with myself the proposition 'Abroad is bloody......