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Diary

Andrew Marr's diary: Ruins on Crete and a spat with Alex Salmond

Plus: One reason for looking forward to Scottish independence

19 April 2014

9:00 AM

19 April 2014

9:00 AM

A week away in Crete: I’ve come for the archaeology and culture — little patches of Minos, ancient Greece, Byzantium and the Venetian Republic are scattered around this most southern sentinel of Europe. It hasn’t gone quite as I’d hoped; when it comes to monuments, the Greek rule seems to be ‘close early, close often’.

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