The English language version of Kathimerini had this to say this morning: Residents and professional organizations on Crete yesterday blamed the slow progress of road construction in the north of the island for dozens of road fatalities in recent years, following the death at the weekend of three people in a head-on collision. Locals...
Read more →Remember the strike of the garbage collectors a couple of weeks ago? We are slowly entering a period where every non-priviliged Greek will feel the effects of the latest strike where it hurts most: on his diner table and in his (parked out of necessity) car(s). I’m talking of course about the strike of...
Read more →DAY 1 Government: we are going to pass a law to re-organize the Greek pension funds. Unions: Oh no, you’re not! Don’t touch our pensions or we’ll organize massive strikes for weeks, leave the garbage cluttering the sidewalks and the streets, cut down the electricity to hundreds of thousands of households, sabotage the financial...
Read more →As I mentioned before, we live in a small street off Leofóro Knossoú, which is the main road from the center of Iraklio to the archeological site of Knossós. It goes all the way down from the Palace to the sea. We usually call it Knossoú Road, except in the winter when we rename...
Read more →I’ve been thinking a lot lately — with more than enough time on my hands now, I was bound to do that sooner than later — about what it is that makes this world of ours so messed-up. No need to give you examples of this messed-upiness, there are plenty of examples around you....
Read more →Everybody’s been talking about snow on the Intahrnet today. A friend from Belgium even sent me an e-mail this morning inquiring about the situation. Quite frankly, I had no idea what they were all talking about. Here, about 1 kilometer north of the archaeological site of Knossós and some 4 kilometers south of the...
Read more →Day 13. I went down to the city centre today to plead with kyría Ioanna (the new DSL tsarina) to speed up the process of downgrading me to 4Mbps. She really did her best, talking to various persons on the phone, to make my case a priority. I’m now back home for 3 hours...
Read more →Once upon a time…. yes, it’s time for a fairy tale again ….there was a guy who had the nerve to think that he was good at problem solving. Let’s call him Sol for the sake of giving him a name. Not that the name has any importance or relevance to this story, it’s...
Read more →Disclaimer: I didn’t write this, I wished that I had or that I could, but I didn’t and I can’t. This was passed on to me by a friend, sorry I don’t know the source or author, it speaks for itself though… I dedicate this to a friend in the U.S. who had tubes...
Read more →In Jonathon Delacour: the heart of things I found an interesting post: Disgusted that the Peloponnesian War has dragged on for years with no end in sight, Lysistrata convinced the women of Athens to go on a sex strike to force their husbands to make peace with Sparta. Girls of the world, you know...
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