You might have heard of Lively, the virtual world launched last week by Google. I decided to leave another shore and start a new career as a Cretan kafeníon owner there. Come by and have a chat if you want. For the moment you need a Windows based system, Macs and Linux are not...
Read more →Piraeás was still sleeping when I arrived. I wandered around for a few hours before the shops would open. No need to hurry since my appointment with Michalis was at 11:00, and the one with the seller at 15:00. Michalis’ shop, called Classic Motorcycles Ltd is at Kalliroïs Street, south of the Acropolis, where...
Read more →As far as reading goes, I’m not a gourmet, I’m a gourmand. I read everything that falls into my hands. Today, while I was taking my daily infusion of “ellinikó métrio” at the Internet Cafe opposite our street on Knossou, I read an article by Rika Vagiani in Ethnos newspaper. You can find the...
Read more →Mike Elgon writes on his blog about the hoops he has to jump through to get a decent internet connection while traveling in Greece. The article is written in Ágios Nikólaos, here in Crete. Note that this guy does not travel for pleasure, he’s not a tourist on vacation. His tag line makes it...
Read more →Having miserably failed at establishing where you have been the last couple of months, let me at least fill you in where we will be in the foreseeable near future. For starters we will take a break from work on the 16th of this month and head for the south to… yes, you guessed...
Read more →This entry is brought to you from the dark bowels of an obscure internet cafe in downtown Iraklio: the local powers that control all telephony and internet access here are still figuring out how to turn the switch to give me back my adsl connection. Full report will follow as soon as that happens....
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 →We finally made it. Everything is unpacked, bar those items that we need to store elsewhere for lack of space. You can’t believe how hard it is to move from a place with 420 square meters of floor space (including various storage areas) to 90 square meters of floor space, not counting the balcony....
Read more →Maastricht is ne brede Maar Maastricht ‘t is lang Maastricht is de leukste stad Gesellig aan de zang – Maastricht Karnival Song Maastricht is not broad But, Maastricht, it is long Maastricht is the finest city Gesellig* on the song – Translation Maastricht is eene groete cafe – Maastricht Karnival Song Maastricht is one...
Read more →This is not working the way I expected it. Or at least, not at the spead I expected it. I’ll have to ask all of you to be a little bit patient until I have finished fighting my battles with local bureaucracy. I still have to rely on slow internet cafes to update my...
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