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Article: Holiday no-nos: bank talk and BlackBerries
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 23, 2008
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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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......children plus courses for serious players. Mark Warner (0870 770 4227; www.markwarner. co.uk) offers specialist centres in San Agostino (mainland Greece) and Lakitira (Kos, Greece). Neilson (0870 333 3356; www.neilson.co.uk) has an elite programme available...
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