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From one ‘Pig’ to another

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Corfu, Greece 2007
Greece summer
Image by Balazs H

From one ‘Pig’ to another
CAESAR, my taxi driver, says he cannot bear to read or watch the news anymore. The content is too depressing and makes him angry. As he coaxes his battered old Mercedes up Lisbon’s cobbled hills, like a roller coaster car creaking to make the top of the ascent, he asks me where I’m from. “Ireland,” I say. “Ah, you know they call us the Pigs [Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain] in Brussels.”
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Corfu, Greece 2007
Greece summer
Image by Balazs H