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Love Durrell's
My Family and Other Animals- wonderful memoir. I read it about the same time I discovered Laurence Durrell's
Alexandria Quartet. Such a ramshackle, talented family, definitely in the great eccentric English tradition
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Love the descriptions of Corfu. I went to Corfu a few years ago and 1930s Corfu is very different to the present day one. I liked Corfu Town and some of the lesser visited places. Too many neon lights and kiss-me-quick hat types for my liking in certain places, although we did find a lovely restaurant when we were out exploring so we booked a table for the evening. When we returned there were no menus or prices to be seen anywhere but plenty of Ferraris and Porsches parked in the carpark. The waitress recited the meals of the day - the food was great and, funnily enough, it wasn't that expensive. Good job, really, or we might've been eating dry bread for the rest of the holiday. LOL.