So we had this relatively major quake with its epicenter in Leonidio measuring 6.2 last Sunday. To be precise at 37.16N and 22.64E, at a depth of 72km. A whole controversy broke out in the days thereafter about the role and functioning of the Greek seismographic services. What is strange to me is that...
Read more →One of the favorite pastimes that Yvonne and I share is discovering small, usually family-run, little tavernas where the food is prepared with love, the prices are honest, the atmosphere is authentic and were occasionally a musician spices up the food with Cretan music. If we have the good fortune of spending time there...
Read more →Day 7 of ADSL flakiness. On Monday December 31st I went to OTE in Iraklio to speak to a real person about my ADSL problems. Of course I didn’t get any further than an administrative staff member who dully noted down what I said (I presented her with a nice spreadsheet of all the...
Read more →So, it’s that time of the year again… A short year it was, and a warm one. Too short and too warm to blog. I had some setbacks, work related, but I won’t dwell on that here. Life’s too short for that. Otherwise we’re doing fine, Yvonne’s practice has really taken off this year,...
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 →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...
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