Just in time for the christmas season, OTE, the incumbent telecom operator, which happens to be the supplier of my ADSL connection, has announced drastic price cuts to their services. I ordered my upgrade yesterday and as a result I will soon have a 24Mbps/1Mbps ADSL2+ connection for €29.90/month, VAT, ISP, all inclusive, no...
Read more →So, it’s that time of the year again… A short year it was, and a warm one. Too short and too warm to blog. I had some setbacks, work related, but I won’t dwell on that here. Life’s too short for that. Otherwise we’re doing fine, Yvonne’s practice has really taken off this year,...
Read more →Have a nice Christmas, all of you! Tomorrow we’ll be leaving for Chania, a town in the western part of Crete which we haven’t visited for a long time. We’ll be staying in the El Greco hotel for 4 days and I’m really hoping to find an old Turkish bath-house that is still operating...
Read more →Having miserably failed at establishing where you have been the last couple of months, let me at least fill you in where we will be in the foreseeable near future. For starters we will take a break from work on the 16th of this month and head for the south to… yes, you guessed...
Read more →So this is Christmas… We hope you all had a good year and that the next may be even better! My blogging was at an all time low and this time I won’t promise to do better next year, because if there is one thing I’ve learned, it’s that I don’t seem to be...
Read more →Listen up, people! Pay attention to the date of the previous article! My apologies if I scared some of you! To avoid any further misunderstandings: of course we stay here! We like it here! We love the food here! We hate the seasons! We even love IKA! After all they paid for my hospital...
Read more →It’s February 15 again, 6 o’clock in the afternoon (they refuse to call this “the evening” here). Last year around this time we were covered in 15 centimeters of snow, now the air is filled with the warmth of the south wind, and it is still light outside. What a difference a year makes....
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 →“What’s with the boat”, you’re asking? Well, before the Greeks imported the custom of the christmas tree, they used scale models of boats in just the same fashion as other parts of the world used pine trees. They would dress up the boat in similar ways, with candles and balls and other glittering garlands....
Read more →I made a mistake in the Not to worry entry. Ioanna of the world renowned Greek hide-out in Briegden informed me that they are closed on December 28. So we are setting up basecamp on December 23 instead, one week from now. It’s a bit of a shame really, because the “onnozel” aspect of...
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