• Posts Tagged ‘kafeníon’

    Cafe Oriste on lively.com

    by  • 18 July, 2008 • General • 1 Comment

    You might have heard of Lively, the virtual world launched last week by Google. I decided to leave another shore and start a new career as a Cretan kafeníon owner there. Come by and have a chat if you want. For the moment you need a Windows based system, Macs and Linux are not...

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    Som’thin’s brewin’

    by  • 24 April, 2007 • General • 0 Comments

    Lefkogia is a small village with 239 inhabitants. Its name comes from the white (=lefko) and land (=gea) and obviously has to do with the color of the land of the area. To the east, both Preveli Palm Beach (Limni) as well as the monastery of Preveli can be accessed from the village. To...

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    Now it’s over, now it’s not

    by  • 16 November, 2004 • Uncategorized • 0 Comments

    Well, summer is over, more or less. We still have regular sunny days, but we’re never sure of it anymore. That means that we have to take something warm and waterproof with us when we leave the house. The socks have also come out of the drawer at the beginning of this month. It’s...

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    Páme!

    by  • 10 February, 2003 • General • 0 Comments

    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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