The English language version of Kathimerini had this to say this morning: Residents and professional organizations on Crete yesterday blamed the slow progress of road construction in the north of the island for dozens of road fatalities in recent years, following the death at the weekend of three people in a head-on collision. Locals...
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 →Everybody’s been talking about snow on the Intahrnet today. A friend from Belgium even sent me an e-mail this morning inquiring about the situation. Quite frankly, I had no idea what they were all talking about. Here, about 1 kilometer north of the archaeological site of Knossós and some 4 kilometers south of the...
Read more →For those who keep track of this, we have been going through some extremely rough weather lately. The whole of Crete has been hit with strong – 10 Beaufort – winds, with the usual, to-be-expected results: roofs flying off, electricity poles (wooden, waddayathink?) uprooted or snapped, cables broken, the works. Large areas have been...
Read more →A 1,5m long squid weighting 4,2kg was washed ashore Koum-Kapi beach in Chania, Crete. A resident of the area saw the giant squid as he was trying to park his car. His son, who was accompanying him went straight to collect the squid, which is usually fished in deep waters in the Mediterranean. The...
Read more →Have a nice Christmas, all of you! Tomorrow we’ll be leaving for Chania, a town in the western part of Crete which we haven’t visited for a long time. We’ll be staying in the El Greco hotel for 4 days and I’m really hoping to find an old Turkish bath-house that is still operating...
Read more →Last week the summer officially gave way to autumn, at least that’s what the calendar wants us to believe. It could have fooled me. During the weekend it was so hot that the pigeons fell off the roof. We went to Chania on Saturday morning and spend the early afternoon with Linda and Giorgos...
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 →Pauline, Paul, Joëlle and Bram made it to Chersonissos, albeit a weebit late, but they made it. The plane which was supposed to land around one o’clock at night (Saturday to Sunday) on Kazantzakis Airport in Iraklio, took off again just before the wheels touched the ground. Without a word of explanation they flew...
Read more →If there is one thing to mention about this week it’s that it was soooooo hot, my brain was melting. The internet weather stations have all reported temperatures in excess of 30 degrees celsius. In this office that I am about to leave any minute now it felt more like 40 degrees… On wednesday...
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