The Secretariat for Digital Planning of the Greek Ministry of Economy and Finance, based on the success of the initiative to install free wireless broadband access points at Syntagma Square, Thissio (nearby Temple of Hephaestus), Kotzia Square and the National Research Foundation in Athens, and the very strong response of the public, will finance...
Read more →My “short break” turned out to be a rather longish break. Everything went fine with the trip to Brussels. We had some problems at the car rental desk due to my credit card having extended it’s limit for the month (I didn’t keep track carefully enough) but after 3 hours of phone calls and...
Read more →We’re back, landed last night around 23:00 local time in Iraklio. We survived, allthough barely. We both have a terrible cold, sore throat, popping eyes, sweating forehead, running nose, the works. But it was fun. Much more relax than last year. We signed the preliminary sales contract for the house, got rid of most...
Read more →“What’s with the boat”, you’re asking? Well, before the Greeks imported the custom of the christmas tree, they used scale models of boats in just the same fashion as other parts of the world used pine trees. They would dress up the boat in similar ways, with candles and balls and other glittering garlands....
Read more →I made a mistake in the Not to worry entry. Ioanna of the world renowned Greek hide-out in Briegden informed me that they are closed on December 28. So we are setting up basecamp on December 23 instead, one week from now. It’s a bit of a shame really, because the “onnozel” aspect of...
Read more →Yesterday evening we treated ourselves to a little mezé in the local ouzeri. There was supposed to be live music, but the musicians apparently didn’t feel like playing, instead contenting themselves to smoking, drinking and chatting with the guests. There weren’t many patrons anyway, because the narrow road that leads to the ouzeri in...
Read more →Okay, 1st of April is over now, we’re once more dealing with the harsh reality of every day. The movers came in with our stuff yesterday. We had exceeded our quota of truck space (we knew that when we loaded our belongings of course) and we had to pay a little extra. Still 50%...
Read more →Friday evening. The plane had left right on time in Düsseldorf. We had a little delay in Athens. Unlike on my way home 2 weeks earlier we had to leave the plane while it got re-fueled and cleaned up. All passengers with destination Iraklio were gathered in the hallway. After fifteen minutes we were...
Read more →Just a few quick keystrokes to let you know that we are well on track with our packing. The movers are expected any day now, but not today. I telephoned the Cretan transport company this morning and I’m waiting for their return call now. We don’t regret that they didn’t show up at our...
Read more →Tomorrow morning I will be leaving for Belgium, so entries to this weblog will be sparse. I’ll take my laptop with me, but with a full programme ahead I doubt that I will have much time to add new entries. If everything goes well Yvonne and I should be back by Friday, 28 of...
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