Now that I am committed to fill this space every day I’m gathering “filler”. That’s stuff that “fills” this space when I don’t have other news. One of those fillers is statistical information about the use of this website. Some people like that, I know I do, but I don’t flatter myself in thinking...
Read more →For the last 2 days we’ve had an extremely warm south wind blowing, the Notiás as it is known locally. During such days most people complain about bodily inconveniences such as lack of energy, headaches, tearing eyes, and a whole lot more. We are probably not integrated enough to experience this. Give us a...
Read more →Stavros was brooding, I could see that from afar. He’s Andreas’ father, past 70 (but he won’t say how much), and I chat with him regularly on my way to the office in the morning. When I asked him what was wrong, he only grumbled something unintelligible and nodded his head towards his daughter...
Read more →Good thing that Felicien reminded me this morning that Yvonne should be celebrating or we would have been terribly embarrassed and not a little ashamed for having missed “KONINGINNEDAG” today! We are proud as it is that we remembered that tomorrow is a holiday here in Greece and that — what with it being...
Read more →I have 5 e-mail accounts and they fill up with spam faster than I can empty them. Lately it looks like they are targetting my .Mac account, that’s the e-mail account with wonderful integration into your operating system. That is, if you are a Macintosh user. Anyway, for those that didn’t know, I am...
Read more →Not much blogging going on lately, huh? I know. I know. Entirely my fault. I’ve been wrestling with it for weeks now. Mentally, I mean. I’m trying to come up with things that are worthwhile reading. That’s where the problem lies. I ususally reject every idea that pops up in my head as not...
Read more →Some people have very diplomatically brought to my attention the fact that I never said anything about what it was exactly that I did here in Crete. I checked the archives of the Chronicles, because I thought I had narrated about that. Apparently, if I did, I only did it mentally. So, to make...
Read more →Η Ελλάδα υπό το μυδέν. Greece is living a first for as long as anybody can remember. Temperatures dropped below zero (celsius) last night. Thursday was still sunny and relatively warm. In the evening (when the Tsiknopémpti celebrations were in full swing, remember) it started raining. That turned into snow in the higher parts...
Read more →Let me translate that for you. Τσικνοπέμπτη. That’s it. Today that is. Today is τσικνοπέμπτη. It is translated into “mardi gras” by one of the electronic dictionaries that my employer makes available to the staff. It’s just that it is not “mardi” today, it is “πέμπτη”, eh “pempti” for you, and that means “thursday”...
Read more →It seems we were just lucky, weather-wise, when we arrived here on Sunday morning. Allthough we had a little bit of rough weather at sea during the night, in the morning when we got off the ferry boat, the skies were clear and little later the sun was shining brightly. Monday at 8 o’clock...
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