Through their discomforts Dom and Phil were missing everything of interest: the sudden strip marshes, the faces in the rock formations, the perfect lakes, the awesome måskoskårså valley grooved into the earth during the Ice Age, the golden eagle circling above it, and the views of a landscape it was impossible to believe existed in Europe.
Let's stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro's key problem. With Greece gone, who's next ?
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Let's stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro's key problem. With Greece gone, who's next ?
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