Tonight we pack and tomorrow we’re gone. The taxi wakes us up at 5 in the morning and the plane at Iraklio airport leaves at 7 (if all goes well). We land in Athens at 10 to 8 and have an hour to kill before the next flight takes us out to Düsseldorf. Lucien...
Read more →It’s now three in the afternoon and the outside temperature must be around 24C degrees. That’s 75F for you decimally impaired. By the way, a happy thanksgiving to you bunch. Go easy on the gastrointestinal system. With this kind of weather there is more folk out there on the street than you would normally...
Read more →It’s done. Flight A3-540 leaves on Saturday 29, at 7 in the morning and we will land at Düsseldorf at 12:40, with one hour to kill in Athens. We will be in Belgium/The Netherlands for a week and a half. It’ll be a little busy probably, what with our presence required in the Greek...
Read more →Armed with 5 copies of this all important form, without which I would be denied residence in Greece, because I was employed, while Yvonne would be a legal alien, because she was unemployed, I entered the building of the emigration police on the harbor grounds at eight thirty. That morning the ferry boat Knossos...
Read more →Up at six o’clock in the morning today. Plenty of time for my morning rituals and at 8 o’clock sharp I climbed the stairs of the employment office, straight to the second floor, where the hundred or so of misérables had been queueing last friday. There was nobody now. I entered the office the...
Read more →I just finished my first attempt at fabricating my version of moussaka, the shepherd’s pie of Greece, a succulent combination of fried aubergines, delicately spiced minced lamb and rich cheese sauce. It’s the most traditional Greek dish and it also happens to be absolutely delicious! When done properly. This one was done by me....
Read more →I missed that! Just now noticed that I now have 100 entries in this blog. One hundred. That’s an average of about one every three days, not perfect, but not bad either. Seems to me that this is enough reason for celebrating and congratulating! So please start congratulating! Thank you, thank you. This is...
Read more →When I entered the police station the second time, there were less people. I recognized 5 faces from earlier. They were waiting for something apparently. The officer whom I had spoken to before smiled politely and knowingly. He must have seen it a thousand times. When it was my turn I paid the €196,5...
Read more →Steaming white I had left the police station without noticing where I went. I was glad that I had done so, for I might have said things that would have only brought me deeper in trouble. Now I saw that I was close to Melba, Carola’s coffee place. It felt like a good idea...
Read more →While we walked back to were I had parked the car, as we approached that spot, I tried to see whether the car was still there and had not been towed away. It was with a sigh of relief that I spotted it quietly waiting for us. It was only when I drove off...
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