It was a beautiful day again today, with temperatures in excess of 32 degrees. We went for a long walk in the hills surrounding Fortezza, the general hospital and Knossos palace. Completely dried out (we didn’t take any water with us) we finished at the Athena restaurant opposite the general hospital. If one day...
Read more →And there we were, at the beginning of this week, thinking that we finally had left the summer behind us. Today the temperature rose above 30 degrees centigrade. Our neighbours are firing up the barbeque right now. It’s 9 o’clock in the evening — or as the Greeks say, in the afternoon. This morning...
Read more →This feels good, 2 entries in 2 consecutive days. Maybe I’m on the right track again… I’ve done a bit of work in the background of the site: you can now use an RSS newsreader if you want to keep track of the Cretan Chronicles without using your browser. This has worked since the...
Read more →I’m torn. I’m having a serious conflict, and like serious conflicts tend to do, it won’t go away by itself. I kinda hoped it would, but it won’t. Damn. It’s like this: I’m not writing enough in this blog-o-sphere of mine, the one you’re reading right now. That’s because my life is too exciting,...
Read more →Sorry about my absence. ‘t is amazing how time flies when you’re having fun, but without any writing inspiration. Anyway, I thought I’ll amuse you with this gem below entretemps: The European Union commissioners have announced that an agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than...
Read more →For all you English speaking fans: this is in Dutch so that a very special little person can read this too. Voor diegenen onder jullie die Joëlle niet kennen, even voorstellen: Joëlle is onze trouwste (je zou kunnen zeggen”hardnekkigste”) fan in Nederland (op de foto hiernaast is Joëlle degene die geen gekke bekken trekt,...
Read more →Two Dutch guys, aged 19 and 17, made it to the frontpage of the Saturday edition of the local Cretan newspaper “Patris”, or Patrida as it is still lovingly called by the elder people. It appears the boys had found a wallet on the beach in front of one of the sea-side hotels in...
Read more →Tonight it struck me all of a sudden that after almost 9 months of Cretan incubation some things have changed in my life. They’ve gradually and slowly crept in without making big waves (am I mixing metaphores here?). For starters, I don’t smoke anymore. Thursday, May 15th at 8:10 in the morning I lit...
Read more →Judging by the number of entries in the central database that keeps track of WiFi spots worldwide, you would think that Greece is the most developed region in the wireless world. There are more entries for Greece than for the whole of the United States of America! I can’t check the accuracy of the...
Read more →We spent the weekend in Matala. It was our official “holidays” for this year. Not much to write home about: we basically did the following routine: drive up there – lay on the beach – eat – lay on the beach – eat, drink – sleep – eat – lay on the beach –...
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