Four thousand days and counting: ‘If you drink, your life expectancy is between one day and six months’

 Richard Pine: 'I’m fortunate in living in Greece, where we have a cafe culture rather than a pub culture'

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Letter from Greece by Richard Pine.

Eleven years of alcohol-free life. Free of alcohol in the sense that, for 4,000 days, not a drop of alcohol has been taken, but unfree in the sense that the desire for a glass of wine or a pint of Uncle Arthur persists. The desire, but not the need.

 

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Richard Pine lives in Corfu, Greece, where he is director of the Durrell Library and writes Letter from Greece for The Irish Times