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 →From Bilzen to Luxemburg was easy enough, the road was clear and dry and the outside temperature was around zero degrees centigrade at 8 o’clock in the morning when I left our house. Approaching Luxemburg, snow started to fall, very lightly at first, then as Metz came closer, the snow got thicker. I never...
Read more →Less than 24 hours before the train leaves the station. I do not exactly have the feeling that I’m fully prepared, what with a whole list of people I still have to contact, my stuff (laptop, camera, scanner, and the assorted cables that go with that, let’s not forget the cables!) still largely unpacked,...
Read more →Don’t worry, I’m not trying to sell you these tires. I just happen to have a picture of them on my desktop, and it as good as any other picture to test this feature in MovableType. After all you do want to see pictures once I’m started on my trip, don’t you? For now,...
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...
Read more →Eleven days no postings?! That’s not a good start, Luc. I plead guilty on all accounts. I have no excuses. But I have a great explanation! You see, when all of you were preparing for this Grande Bouffe event that is coming up, I have been chasing down webhosting companies for 7 days. The...
Read more →I missed my self-imposed deadline for my departure to Crete. About one year ago, Yvonne and I agreed that we would celebrate my 50th birthday in our new home. In september this year we adjusted that plan to what I already described as the new plan (see Friday). It still meant that I should...
Read more →Wel, we zijn zo ver! Neen, niet zó ver… Wat ik wil zeggen is dat ik een eerste poging om onze avonturen te registreren en publiekelijk toegankelijk te maken met redelijk succes heb afgesloten. “Ja maar, er staat hier toch niets over Kreta!” Dat klopt, zoals ik al in de aanhef zei: “zó ver...
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