I’m coming home, I’ve done my time… After a whole month searching for a company that could bring our gear over from Kleine Spouwen, Belgium to Iraklio, I was driving my upstairs neighbour with her cat to the vet last evening. While I was explaining that the transporters in our country charged over €5000...
Read more →In a EMBASSY OF GREECE: PRESS OFFICE – News Flash, published by the Washington D.C. office in june 2002, Mr. Simitis said that the average salary in Greece rose to 80 percent of the EU average, inflation has fallen significantly, budget deficits were turned into surpluses and the country’s public debt was steadily shrinking....
Read more →How the heating seriously hampered my climb on the social ladder, the curtains offended my deep sense of symmetry, jobs are weak and the drachme is strong, although VAT is on and off, automated responses aren’t and the Greek government is. Let’s see, what happened this week? In random order, since there is no...
Read more →This doesn’t look good: a fresh month without posting. I have to admit to you that I have been a little bit preoccupied lately, but that’s no reason for neglecting you of course. So please accept my apologies if you came here loyally every day and didn’t find any news. I promise I will...
Read more →After skimming through the adverts for apartments at what had become my habitual morning hangout: coffee at Carola’s, I went to see 2 more apartments and one real estate agent. Minoanland the name was. Upon entry of the offices I immediately spotted something highly unusual in this part of the world: the whole office...
Read more →I woke up because my mobile phone rang. It was Yvonne. I was beaten. The fatigue of the journey had taken its toll. After a shower I got out on the streets and bought the local newspaper which I read through the adverts while having a cup of coffee at Carola’s coffee shop on...
Read more →I decided to get off at the first village that would have a place to stay for the night. By now it was past 6 o’clock, light was fading quickly, when I came to a crossroads in Itía. To the right was the main road to Athens, left pointed to Delphi, 9 kilometers away....
Read more →When I woke up and got down to the restaurant I met with nothing but sleep-drunken passengers. The staff were not yet fully prepared in the restaurant so I took a stroll on the outside deck. I was met by a beautiful rainbow. I thought I could discern land far away but I told...
Read more →The grounds on which the boat terminal is located had a definite Greek look to it already. I couldn’t see the boats from the road. There was no indication that I was indeed at the passengers ferry terminal. The roads on the grounds were full of holes, now filled with water. I could see...
Read more →Heavy snowfall, torrential rain and powerful winds caused havoc across Greece on Saturday and yesterday, disrupting road, rail and sea transportation, flooding homes, destroying roads and wiping out crops. The central regions of Pieria and Larissa were hit hardest, with the government declaring them in a state of emergency, as floodwaters covered their fertile...
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