After their succesful offensive in April last year, Lucien and Reinhilde are planning a new attack on our shores next weekend, in commemoration of that other great invasion that took place 60 years ago, give or take a few days… To be honest, they are a bit late this year, following in the footsteps...
Read more →The ferry arrived a little late in Patras. At 3 o’clock at night we had docked in Igoumenitsa, meaning that we were still on track then. Something must have happened thereafter, but nobody informed nobody. At around 12 at noon we drove off the ramp, one and a half hour behind schedule. We dropped...
Read more →Wired has a nice article about and an overview of RSS readers, also called news aggregators. From the article: These programs are hybrids of a Web browser and an e-mail client, allowing Web users to peruse hundreds of information sources in one place. Instead of surfing dozens of sites for the latest news or...
Read more →Do you remember when I wrote about the Greek traffic rules, or rather their non-existence in this part of the world, this time around last year? Well, it turns out that the Greek system is a better system. Hey, how can it not be, these Cretan guys are thousands of years ahead of us....
Read more →It’s amazing how many things we take for granted. Until they are taken away from us. Take water, for instance, or rather, take water away, for instance. That’s what happened on Monday morning. Yvonne was about to take a shower when the water all of a sudden stopped. I went to the cellar to...
Read more →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 →Well, this is going to be tougher that I thought. There are almost 20.000 pages returned by Google, after only 5 days! I have seen in my log files that googlebot visited my site, even several times since I started, but I’m still nowhere to be seen in the first 100 results. And let’s...
Read more →…then they went home. Pauline, Paul, Joëlle and Bram had taken the bus in Chersonissos this morning and we picked them up at the station in Iraklio. After we crammed all their luggage in my little Yaris, with enough planned space for them later, we left the car where it was parked and went...
Read more →Stavros was brooding, I could see that from afar. He’s Andreas’ father, past 70 (but he won’t say how much), and I chat with him regularly on my way to the office in the morning. When I asked him what was wrong, he only grumbled something unintelligible and nodded his head towards his daughter...
Read more →You heard of Sasser, haven’t you? What, you didn’t? Where have you been the last 24 hours? I hope you’re not that irresponsible a person that you don’t check the virus warning bulletins every now and then. You should, you know, because there is danger lurking out there all the time. There is only...
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