We’re having a heatwave!
Yes folks, Manchester is as hot as Athens, if only for one day. Here’s the perfect track for baking in the sun: the blissed-out, beautific beats of Crookram. He’s from Holland, you know.
And another sun bathing track, Crookram – Sur La Route…
The album, Through Windows can be downloaded free from http://www.crookram.net/
See also:
The Avalanches-Halo’s and Heartstrings Mixtape
The Found Sound Orchestra-Once Round the Dancefloor and Home Mixtape
‘What exactly do we call these Abu Dhabian, Dubian people?’ asked my friend Gordon brightly one morning. ‘Arabs,’ I replied.
In the spirit of Las Vegas, Arab princes compete with each other to see who can build the tallest tower, importing foreign culture wholesale. In the case of Dubai, the West is best and Stetsons can be seen amongst the dish-dashes and kanduras. The architecture is stunning, hotels monumental. This is where money lives.
It’s difficult leaving an island like Santorini, particularly if you’re returning to the smouldering shops of Manchester. I will never complain about 35°C again. Everything they say about it is true: it’s impossibly beautiful, and seems to get more breath-taking every time you turn a corner. We had a garden apartment with a sea view, like a little Barbary Lane with a sun terrace and jacuzzi on the roof. There were lazy days soaking up the rays and nights were spent in the stylish cave-bars and restaurants which cling to the cliffs, watching the cruise ships and shuttles glowing far beneath us like deep-sea creatures in the dark. You could be forgiven for thinking you’ve woken up on the set of Mama Mia, and the sunsets looked like something out of a movie. I left my heart in San Francisco, but my flip-flops belong to Santorini.
I came here looking for the famous blue-domed church which features so seductively in all the pictures of Santorini. It wasn’t long before I realised there has been some kind of church-building competition which means there are almost as many blue domes as there are houses. They look like someone left a selection of wedding cakes across the island. Blue, peach, white… all of them handsome and striking. Apart from the peach. I’m not sure about the peach.
I’m using the WordPress app for iPhone by the way, and it seems to work like a dream, in case anyone’s interested. Unfortunately, Wi-Fi in Santorini seems to be like trying to pick up radio signals in World War II: any expressive hand gestures and you can forget about a signal.
I hate flying. It’s like being squashed into a cigar tube and fired from a cannon. We were aimed at Athens and bounced briefly off Belgium. Santorini is in the Greek archipelago and it’s famous for being the most beautiful island with the best sunsets on Earth. They have Wi-Fi!
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