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"I don't know what the reaction of the British public (has been), I came here to have a quiet time to organise the house," he said in comments to local reporters carried by Sky News, referring to measures to make the property COVID-19 secure for lettings.
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LONDON, July 4 (Reuters) - The father of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday defended his decision to fly to Greece even though at that time the government advice was for UK nationals to avoid all but essential international travel.
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"It's essential that bands, artists, musicians and DJs can travel Europe at every level of their career. Europe is part of the geographic working space," Primal Scream bass player Simone Marie Butler said in a statement.
The campaign, organised by trade body the Featured Artists' Coalition, is calling for a "transitional support package" to help cover new touring costs, measures overcoming rules on touring vehicles and a "viable long-term plan" for UK artists and their crews to work in the EU "without costly permits and bureaucracy".
In January, Sting, Ed Sheeran and Elton John were among the more than 100 signatories of a letter published in The Times newspaper, urging the government to negotiate a reciprocal deal allowing paperwork-free travel for touring artists.
Why would anybody recommend a fellow being to visit, for pleasure, a hot industrial city set beside a featureless plain? If the few broken stone columns sprouting from a field beside the road represented the Pelion's contribution to Greek architecture, I thought the Pelion could keep the
Five years since Britons voted to leave the European Union, the #LetTheMusicMove campaign says Brexit-related expenditure, restrictions and bureaucracy are "making EU touring unviable and threatens the future success of British music".
LONDON, June 23 (Reuters) - More than 200 music artists, including Radiohead, The Chemical Brothers and Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason, backed a campaign on Wednesday calling on the British government to reduce costs and red tape to make post-Brexit touring around Europe easier.
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All that I heard in the interim years convinced me that the old-fashioned Greece I'd known was for ever lost. Until, that is, I overheard a friend talking about the Pelion Peninsul Since then, I've never dared to return.
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But it's easy to get accustomed to dicing with death when you're on the road to heaven, and by the end of my visit my driving was almost nonchalan I've never encountered roads more tortuous in their twists, or more lacking in barriers to protect the unwary driver from a drop into the void.
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it was the terror of disappointment. Back then, part-owner of a pretty villa on a Corfu hilltop, I'd lived as if in another era, in a village untouched by tourist Twenty years had slipped away since my last visit to Greece.
From here, the midway point, travellers could take a spectacular trip down to Volos on a narrow-gauge rail track built more than a century ago by the father of the surrealist painter Giorgio de chirico. Sadly, the line had just shut down at the end of the summer when I arrived, and I never had the chance to peek from the train's windows at the mythic mountain cave of chiron the centaur, tutor to Hercules and Achille
