Day 12. Get this: it is Sunday, moreover it is a special Sunday, Epiphany, which is celebrated all over Greece, the highlight being the diving for the cross, where young (and not so young) men dive into the ice cold water to retrieve a cross that the priest has thrown in. This typically happens...
Read more →Back in January 2003, when I was preparing to drive off from Kleine Spouwen to Iraklio, I used a route planner on the internet to give me some guidance on how to drive to my destination. I don’t remember anymore which website I used, but it definitely wasn’t mappoint.msn.com. And a good thing too...
Read more →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 →Sunday morning woke me up at the break of day. There was something rattling in the hallway just outside my room. It turned out to be an open window which was being swung open and shut by the blizzard that was targeting the motel with snow and hail. The thick carpet in the hallway...
Read more →Friday the thirteenth! And nothing bad has happened to me all day yet! Okay, I’m a little bit short of news to tell you, but it doesn’t feel right not to post anything at all. So here goes, the new schedule: I will leave on Saturday, 4th of January 2003. If all goes well...
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