To Aix-en-Provence for a young friend’s wedding to a celebrity DJ in a beautiful tent in an olive grove. A short chat with the beautiful Kate Moss and her hubby, followed by some heavy boozing under the disapproving eyes of my two children and their mother. Aix is a beautiful old town with many parts still unspoiled, but crowded over the weekend. I stayed on my boat in Marseilles and really enjoyed myself because of the kids being around. Fun is fun, but September promises not to be so, what with the euro about to collapse along with Greece and the rest of the PIGS. Papa Hemingway described going broke as ‘slowly at first, then all of a sudden’.
Today the international system is in dangerous turmoil. Politicians, economists and CEOs, in whose hands our fate lies, have all studied at the same universities in the West. They remind me of those wise men who ran the communist system some 30 years ago.
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