After a nice walk in the warm morning sun we entered the building full of hope and good spirits. We took the elevator straight to the 4th floor, as indicated on a magnetic board in the hall. Two ladies were occupying the office. Neither of them spoke English. We tried our best Greek. Something...
Read more →Since most or Iraklio is one way only streets now, we decide we would be there faster on foot than by car, so we left the car parked where it was. After questioning half a dozen of people we found the building and entered. There was already a long queue of people waiting at...
Read more →With the missing form we got from the emigration police we drove to the office where I work in the centre. With the help of Popi, short for Penelope, I filled in the form. Somebody needed to sign it and I suggested that she would do that. That was a little bit too much...
Read more →Today we would at long last finalize our registration with the local authorities. We had all the forms (or so we thought) and we were well informed. Friends had translated everything until the last dot on the last iota. What could go wrong? As a reminder to our readers, we had tried this before...
Read more →To make up for the lack of articles due to the massive internet black-out that hit our appartment last week, I have a few related paragraphs for you today. Something of a little story actually. Enjoy it.
Read more →I don’t know if it is this technology or the people that use it, but my internet connection was down for 5 days once more. You might have noticed my absence. It is not a good thing at the beginning of my renewed commitment to my blog-o-sphere. Alas it can’t be helped. Ti na...
Read more →Where were we? Right, I had left the offices and was trying to stay ahead of the traffic, in which I succeeded marvelously, thank you. A bit before 6 o’clock I was home. Now that Yvonne doesn’t have to work anymore at night, I usually start with the preparations for our evening meal right...
Read more →Is it Thursday already? Damnit! Last time I looked up, I was writing part 2 of this thriller account of my most ordinary day, and that was on Tuesday. How did Wednesday slip through? Okay, I know you’re all waiting with great impatience, so without any further ado here goes: With my cup of...
Read more →After the ch’i gung exercises Yvonne went to feed Birte’s cats upstairs while I poured water in the kettle and put the kettle on the electric stove. I put the nescafé powder in 2 cups and while the water warmed up I went out on the balcony (18 meters of it) to remove the...
Read more →Boy, this is difficult! Coming up with something to write about in your blog every day! Nothing worthwhile happened today, it was just an ordinary day! What’s there to write about? Well, I’ll write about that then. Just an ordinary day. It makes a good title too! What’s an ordinary day like? For me,...
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