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Readers' favourite photographs, songs and recipesSnapshot: My big fat Greek summerIn the summer of 1974, my brother John spent the summer with three students from Aberdeen University, studying the breeding biology of falcons and shearwaters on the uninhabited island of Dragonada, off the north-eastern coast of Crete.My friend Carolyn and I, also penniless students, flew out in August to join them for three weeks in nearby Sitia – at that time not a popular tourist destination. We stayed at a ...

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