At 8:15 this morning, with the sun rising low in my back, I was driving on the national road from Iraklio towards Rethimno. I do this every Monday and Tuesday. This stretch of the national road is the only part where there are 2 lanes in each direction, with a concrete wall dividing the...
Read more →No, this is not a typicial spam e-mail subject line, although you are forgiven for thinking that it is. This is actually a search term which is the subject of a little competition. I have explained before what I do for a living here in Crete. Now www.darkblue.com, in conjunction with Search Guild, a...
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 →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’s done. Flight A3-540 leaves on Saturday 29, at 7 in the morning and we will land at Düsseldorf at 12:40, with one hour to kill in Athens. We will be in Belgium/The Netherlands for a week and a half. It’ll be a little busy probably, what with our presence required in the Greek...
Read more →Boy, this is difficult! Coming up with something to write about in your blog every day! Nothing worthwhile happened today, it was just an ordinary day! What’s there to write about? Well, I’ll write about that then. Just an ordinary day. It makes a good title too! What’s an ordinary day like? For me,...
Read more →You wouldn’t believe what happened to me today. I had been wondering about it for some time now, but as the days and the weeks passed I had given up on it. I had come to assume that it just would never happen, extraordinary as that may seem. It must have been, for sure,...
Read more →Mattie Hermans of the Open University in Heerlen is the second to visit Crete since we got here. I promised him I would hold for him the nice weather we’ve been enjoying for the last couple of weeks. Unfortunately, I have been found not powerful enough for that task. This morning the weather completely...
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 →Friday evening. The plane had left right on time in Düsseldorf. We had a little delay in Athens. Unlike on my way home 2 weeks earlier we had to leave the plane while it got re-fueled and cleaned up. All passengers with destination Iraklio were gathered in the hallway. After fifteen minutes we were...
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