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 →Everything they do differently here. I’ve never heard people wishing each other a “nice first of May”. Here they do that starting on the eve of May 1st, and all through the day itself. It’s very nice. By the way, people also wish each other a “nice week” on Monday and a “nice month”...
Read more →Read in ZDNet UK News the following snippet: Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a US company that has been awarded the contract to provide IT security at the Olympics, SAIC also plans to set up an electronic fence around the Olympics, using infrared and high-resolution cameras, and vehicle tracking systems. An airborne surveillance...
Read more →The only ballad that I know of Metallica. It’s one of Yvonne’s favorites. It’s playing right now while Yvonne gets ready for a meeting with a friend. It’s four o’clock in the afternoon. We just got back from our Sunday morning drive, searching for suitable houses or plots. We didn’t find anything worth mentioning...
Read more →Many people have asked us what we thought of the Olympic Games, just in case you only just now crawl out from under some rock, this year to be held in Athens (some of them games also take place in Thessaloniki, Patras and our own Iraklio, none in Olympos though, funny enough). Most of...
Read more →Okay folks, it was a long journey, a difficult journey, with lots of hurdles, you know, of the bureaucratic type, a few of the technical type too, but we got to the finish. We now are the proud users of an Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL). In order to get there I went to...
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 →Tonight we pack and tomorrow we’re gone. The taxi wakes us up at 5 in the morning and the plane at Iraklio airport leaves at 7 (if all goes well). We land in Athens at 10 to 8 and have an hour to kill before the next flight takes us out to Düsseldorf. Lucien...
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 →Since most or Iraklio is one way only streets now, we decide we would be there faster on foot than by car, so we left the car parked where it was. After questioning half a dozen of people we found the building and entered. There was already a long queue of people waiting at...
Read more →