This feels good, 2 entries in 2 consecutive days. Maybe I’m on the right track again… I’ve done a bit of work in the background of the site: you can now use an RSS newsreader if you want to keep track of the Cretan Chronicles without using your browser. This has worked since the...
Read more →Two Dutch guys, aged 19 and 17, made it to the frontpage of the Saturday edition of the local Cretan newspaper “Patris”, or Patrida as it is still lovingly called by the elder people. It appears the boys had found a wallet on the beach in front of one of the sea-side hotels in...
Read more →Tonight it struck me all of a sudden that after almost 9 months of Cretan incubation some things have changed in my life. They’ve gradually and slowly crept in without making big waves (am I mixing metaphores here?). For starters, I don’t smoke anymore. Thursday, May 15th at 8:10 in the morning I lit...
Read more →As you are all preparing to invade this island where I have found shelter (Frans and Nadine just arrived in Chania by the way), I thought it time to give some friendly advise as to the code of conduct while driving on our scenic roads. So here are a few rules, which — if...
Read more →Albeit a little late, I’m glad I can report to you that we had a wonderful Easter. On Friday 25th in the morning we did a round of the consulates to promote Yvonne’s activities. We were most welcomed in most cases by the honorary consuls themselves. In most cases, because only 3 of 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 →Just a few quick keystrokes to let you know that we are well on track with our packing. The movers are expected any day now, but not today. I telephoned the Cretan transport company this morning and I’m waiting for their return call now. We don’t regret that they didn’t show up at our...
Read more →Saturday had been a reasonably nice day. It was dry for a change and the temperature had risen to 15 degrees. I thought it would be good idea for me to go to Kastelli Kissamou on Sunday. Sunday morning greeted me with a grey sky, the type that disappears unnoticed into the equally grey...
Read more →The weather, the whole weather and nothing but the weather. It has been one heck of a month, weather wise. To start with, we had massive leaks in the sky, throwing a wet curtain all over the island for days on end. When it wasn’t raining, a fierce and cold wind from the north...
Read more →It was half past nine in the evening and they were six — in their early forties — at a table when I entered the “kafeníon”. No other customers were present except those men. I sat down at a table a little bit out of the way and ordered a “karafáki” and “mezé”. The...
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