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Day 6 22 May 2023 Naxos

We had a lazy start to the day. We have a tour booked for 5’ish. We set out after 10am for a walk around our local village and down to the beach. We walked through the village and along in … Continue reading

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Day 5 21st May 2023. Athens to Naxos

It’s Greece’s election day, all people intending to vote have gone or are on their way to the villages in which they are registered to vote, for most Greeks this is the village of their family. Our alarm went off … Continue reading

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Day 4 Athens

We had the “ working day” to ourselves, our tour today starts at 5:30pm. We set off a little after 9am and walked down to the Temple of Olympian Zeus. Number of Views :500

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Day 3 19 May 2023. Athens

You know your in Athens when the view out the window from your breakfast table is the Parthenon sitting on top of The Acropolis. Number of Views :374

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17 – 18 May 2023. Adelaide – Melbourne – Abu Dhabi – Athens

Deb was up early, silly early, she will sleep well on the flight. I took Louis for a couple of walks around Veale Gardens, giving him a last sniff of familiar places before his holiday with Elise, Randal and Winter … Continue reading

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#41. The WHO declares the emergency over

From CNN 6 May 2023  —  “Covid-19 is no longer a global health emergency, the World Health Organization said on Friday. WHO’s International Health Regulations Emergency Committee discussed the pandemic on Thursday at its 15th meeting on Covid-19, and WHO … Continue reading

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#40 March 2023 Covid-19 is now Endemic

31 March 2023 My FINAL Covid-19 Daily Blog Entry Its over 3 years since I began following the Novel Corona Virus that was reported in the provincial city of Wuhan China, and the vagaries of Chinese Wet Markets was introduced … Continue reading

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#39 February 2023 Covid-19  Keep quiet and it will go away!

I guess we are getting ever so close to Covid-19 being treated as Endemic rather than Pandemic, the difference you ask, it is/will be treated similar to the Flu, with new vaccines every year. Number of Views :405

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#37 January 2023 Covid-19 Let’s not talk about that!!

The biggest change that has occurred this month is the seemingly conscious decision of Governments and the press not to “talk about” Covid-19. Seems they want everyone to move on and live life as usual/normal/pre-pandemic. All this as waves of … Continue reading

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December 2022 The World attempts to “Normalise”, China?, and the War continues

2022 in Numbers The world had 377,994,775 new reported cases of Covid-19 with 1,251,438 reported deaths due to Covid-19. Australia had 10,740,556 new reported cases of Covid-19 with 14,828 reported deaths due to Covid-19. South Australia had 853,050 new reported … Continue reading

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