I didn’t sleep well at all. The roll of toilet paper they had tightly strapped to my right groin was hurting all night. The nurse had explained that it was necessary, to make sure that the vein in my groin would close completely. A good thing they will take it away in a couple...
Read more →During breakfast the doctors come in and tell me to get ready for the stress test. I haven’t finished my tea yet and I ask “Now?“. Yes, is the simple answer. A nurse is already waiting with a wheelchair to bring me to the test room. There I get strapped up with a dozen...
Read more →Yes, yes, we are still doing fine. We had a beautiful summer this year. The weather was absolutely fantastic and we practically went “camping” every weekend at some remote beach in the south of the provinces of Iraklio and Rethymno. We covered the whole stretch from Tertsá, west of Ierapetra, to Rodákino, just short...
Read more →We finally made it. Everything is unpacked, bar those items that we need to store elsewhere for lack of space. You can’t believe how hard it is to move from a place with 420 square meters of floor space (including various storage areas) to 90 square meters of floor space, not counting the balcony....
Read more →Friday evening. The plane had left right on time in Düsseldorf. We had a little delay in Athens. Unlike on my way home 2 weeks earlier we had to leave the plane while it got re-fueled and cleaned up. All passengers with destination Iraklio were gathered in the hallway. After fifteen minutes we were...
Read more →Just a few quick keystrokes to let you know that we are well on track with our packing. The movers are expected any day now, but not today. I telephoned the Cretan transport company this morning and I’m waiting for their return call now. We don’t regret that they didn’t show up at our...
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 →Today was spent running around the house and measuring things up. The point came up because Yvonne and I realized that sooner or later we had to arrange for transport of our possessions to Iraklio. When moving stuff across two seas, one had better plan these things a bit more carefully. Fortunately we never...
Read more →… is that there are so many. Take for example HTML. Boy, I’ve been strugling with getting my blog page (Cretan Chronicles) present itself nicely in the same way as my main entry page, but unsuccessfully so far. The problem is that the graphics in the main page still rely heavily on tables for...
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