So, it’s that time of the year again… A short year it was, and a warm one. Too short and too warm to blog. I had some setbacks, work related, but I won’t dwell on that here. Life’s too short for that. Otherwise we’re doing fine, Yvonne’s practice has really taken off this year,...
Read more →I’m back from my visit to Lefkogia, accompanied by Renata, the civil engineer (not building engineer as I mentioned in the previous article). A civil engineer (‘POLITIKOS MIKANIKOS’) is usually hired to review a specific plot and to ensure that boundaries are within the description in a title document. They can also be consulted...
Read more →Lefkogia is a small village with 239 inhabitants. Its name comes from the white (=lefko) and land (=gea) and obviously has to do with the color of the land of the area. To the east, both Preveli Palm Beach (Limni) as well as the monastery of Preveli can be accessed from the village. To...
Read more →Everybody knows that some countries “excel” in bureaucracy over others. On a European level Greece definitely belongs to the top of the league. On a national playing field within Greece, IKA must be the champion. The one and only requirement to enter the IKA workforce used to be your affiliation with the right political...
Read more →Have a nice Christmas, all of you! Tomorrow we’ll be leaving for Chania, a town in the western part of Crete which we haven’t visited for a long time. We’ll be staying in the El Greco hotel for 4 days and I’m really hoping to find an old Turkish bath-house that is still operating...
Read more →For those of you monitoring the weather forecast here in Crete, don’t worry, we have adapted our camping “technique”, in view of the rain season and expected hurricanes in the bay of Damnoni. After reading all the doom and gloom with regards to the elements next week, we’ve decided it would not be a...
Read more →You remember how I mentioned a few days ago that we just put some inflatable mattresses on top of our spread-out tent and call that “camping”? It was not looking too good for our upcoming “vacation” this year. A couple of weeks ago we were invited by Giorgos and Maria to join them in...
Read more →Why, Luc, you’re saying, that’s not a Frequently Asked Question! Well, I’m very sorry to proof you wrong, but last night I did ask myself exactly this questions very frequently! Extremely very frequently so! Based on this fact, and the fact that it is a question, the question mark at the end proves that,...
Read more →Ahem. Well it’s a Frequently Asked Question section of my weblog. All of a sudden it seemed like a good idea, since a) I get a lot of similar questions that are asked frequently and b) this might bring some new life into this old carcass. We’ll see how it goes. To tell you...
Read more →Having miserably failed at establishing where you have been the last couple of months, let me at least fill you in where we will be in the foreseeable near future. For starters we will take a break from work on the 16th of this month and head for the south to… yes, you guessed...
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