Article: Holiday no-nos: bank talk and BlackBerries

FROM my sun-lounger at the Mark Warner complex at San Agostino in the Peloponnese, these past two weeks, I noticed a fundamental change from the previous occasion I went on one of their holidays.

Hardly anybody was on their mobile.

Nobody was hunched over a BlackBerry. The resort's internet facility was eerily quiet, too.

A few years ago, in Lakitira on Kos, it was very different. Then, you couldn't read for the City types walking around barking into their Nokias.

Likewise, whenever you looked up, there was always someone squinting at their hand-held.

This time, others also noticed the change. Either, we agreed, there is no work this summer or people really have decided to leave the office ...

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