Gold for Athens ; the Games Have Left Visitors to the Greek Capital the Real Winners, Says Edward Enfield

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I AM now used to being made to feel that England is a Third World country. Hong Kong airport had that effect and so did the trains in Japan.

But Athens? Surely not yet since they spruced it up for the Olympics it does exactly that.

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Gold for Athens ; the Games Have Left Visitors to the Greek Capital the Real Winners, Says Edward Enfield

When I first went to Athens, I arrived at a rundown airport, took a rattly old bus through scruffy streets lined with shops selling lampshades (whatever did they do with them all?) and was tipped out into a pandemonium of traffic.

Athens, I decided, was a place to pass through on the way to somewhere ni...

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