I got this story by email today from a friend I made in Google Lively, now almost 2 years ago, who got it from an American friend and found it very funny…. You might know it already, I didn’t and I absolutely needed to share it with you. A Little Christmas Story When four...
Read more →DAY 1 Government: we are going to pass a law to re-organize the Greek pension funds. Unions: Oh no, you’re not! Don’t touch our pensions or we’ll organize massive strikes for weeks, leave the garbage cluttering the sidewalks and the streets, cut down the electricity to hundreds of thousands of households, sabotage the financial...
Read more →There is some controversy going on in Greece about the anonymity of bloggers. I noticed it first in the local newspaper Nea Kriti which ran an article under the title “Βάζει φρένο …” which is translated by Google as “It puts a damper..”. Since, as usual, I couldn’t make sense of the automatic Google...
Read more →“Local Administration employees (OTA) are staging a work stoppage from 11:00 till the end of their shifts, on Thursday, February 7, in protest against the cut off of the bonus for users of computers. They are also staging a protest demonstration in front of the Interior Ministry at 12:00 on the same day while...
Read more →Okay, one more quicky before I go to sleep, because it is the end of the week, and I owe you some entries for the time lost these months. I’ve been asked a few times why I write this blog in English. While I gracefully try to cover up that I don’t have a...
Read more →Today I met a British pensioner at Carola’s coffee house who told me a very funny story: his son, now a forensic psychologist, married a Cretan girl some 20 years ago and came to live here with his new family. He was employed at Chania airport for a couple of years, I don’t remember...
Read more →…for those who are patient. We got word today that our house in Belgium is bought by an excentric millionair for twice the asking price. At the same time, at my new job (renting cars to the great unwashed) this morning I was approached by a local official and offered the job of IT...
Read more →In Jonathon Delacour: the heart of things I found an interesting post: Disgusted that the Peloponnesian War has dragged on for years with no end in sight, Lysistrata convinced the women of Athens to go on a sex strike to force their husbands to make peace with Sparta. Girls of the world, you know...
Read more →Today I got a reasonable explanation from someone on the seemingly random way of including VAT in the prices of some goods and not in others, as I told you yesterday. It happened in another electronics shop I went to today. The salesperson seemed a little bit more open to my questioning him on...
Read more →How the heating seriously hampered my climb on the social ladder, the curtains offended my deep sense of symmetry, jobs are weak and the drachme is strong, although VAT is on and off, automated responses aren’t and the Greek government is. Let’s see, what happened this week? In random order, since there is no...
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