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In praise of Patmos

Chora and the Monastery of St John the Divine, the highest point of the island of Patmos [DeAgostini/Getty Images] 
issue 24 July 2021

Patmos

I’m in Patmos with four grandchildren, two children, and a wife. I know, I know, it sounds very lower–middle-class and only Bournemouth and some sunbeds are missing, but who cares. Children have friends, and grandchildren even younger friends, so it’s not all gloom and doom.

The princely Schwarzenbergs are here — the mother is Greek — and so is half of Vienna, not to mention Florence, Venice and Rome.

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