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A new era begins

June 29, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

As we sat eating souvlaki and tzatziki in a Monastiraki restaurant, Maria read on her Twitter timeline that bank closures and credit controls would start Monday

Filed Under: Cafe culture, Notes Tagged With: Athens, Greece

The stones are silent…

June 28, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

While all the tourists come and go, Greeks in cafes like this around the country are having conversations that will decide the outcome of the 5 July referendum

Filed Under: Cafe culture, Notes Tagged With: Athens, Greece

Tuning in to the reality of the Greek crisis

June 27, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

Perhaps the first step if we want to support the Greek people, is to at least try to pay attention to what they are saying about their situation

Filed Under: Notes Tagged With: Athens, Greece

Finding your feet in a new landscape

June 26, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

Maybe it’s when we’re prepared to wobble around precariously in unfamiliar terrain that new ways of approaching old problems emerge

Filed Under: Notes Tagged With: Athens, Greece

Up close and personal

June 25, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

If we were face to face with the reality of the lives of the Greek people today, would we really think what is happening is OK?

Filed Under: Notes Tagged With: Athens, Greece

Breathing space

April 20, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

Sitting outside The Black Lab in Clapham, enjoying a cup of coffee on a sunny day, it seems that loss has left me entirely out of sync with the rest of the world

Filed Under: Books, Notes Tagged With: Greece, London, Spain

The language of hope

April 17, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

The phone call asking me to get involved in the ‘newspaper’ called 28 Days helped lift my gloomy mood, and working on the project has meant a lot to me in the last few months…

Filed Under: Published elsewhere Tagged With: 28 Days, Egypt, Greece, London

Capitalism and women’s discontents

March 31, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

The words Marilena Simiti used often to describe people’s state of mind in Greece when I met her at Filion were ‘anxiety’, ‘resignation’ and ‘depression’

Filed Under: Books, Cafe culture, Notes Tagged With: Greece

The art of belonging

March 28, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

Walking around Athens, feeling that I don’t belong anywhere, I found myself drawn to the familiar Starbucks logo

Filed Under: Books, Cafe culture Tagged With: Greece, London

On a road to nowhere..?

March 26, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

Our relationship to the future requires an understanding of the past, but we may need to go further back and deeper, before we can start imagining a better one

Filed Under: Books, Cafe culture Tagged With: Greece

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