I’m terribly sorry, but water these days is the only thing I have on my mind, and since you were interested I our faring, you’ll get what you asked for. The last time we had a tiny little bit of water coming out of the pipes was on Tuesday, 8th July. That’s almost a full...
Read more →“A plunge in the Greek real estate sector”. That’s what a number of local newspaper headlined over the past days. It was about time, not the action of the newspapers, but the plunge.
Read more →ERT’s fine journalists had me cringe again today. Consider the following quotes from a recent article: According to results of two recent gallops, the ND party is firmly in the lead against PASOK party and… In a gallop conducted by Public Issue on behalf of Skai channel and Kathimerini newspaper, and finally… Another...
Read more →For those who keep track of this, we have been going through some extremely rough weather lately. The whole of Crete has been hit with strong – 10 Beaufort – winds, with the usual, to-be-expected results: roofs flying off, electricity poles (wooden, waddayathink?) uprooted or snapped, cables broken, the works. Large areas have been...
Read more →You might have scratched your head a few times in the past wondering why news about me and my new home country wasn’t more forthcoming. Why wouldn’t I write about what was going on in this country? Something must be happening here, won’t it? Why didn’t you hear my perspective on these events? Indeed...
Read more →Day 7 of ADSL flakiness. On Monday December 31st I went to OTE in Iraklio to speak to a real person about my ADSL problems. Of course I didn’t get any further than an administrative staff member who dully noted down what I said (I presented her with a nice spreadsheet of all the...
Read more →It looks like we are going to make it by Sunday night: the kitchen stuff has been completely moved to the new house, the bedroom is fully over, so is most of the living room, except for 2 arm chairs. What’s left is what we call our “office room”, with the computer gear, printers,...
Read more →No es amor, no es amor, es una obsesion. I find this tune, a house remix by Aventura, pretty addictive. I got it on my newly acquired iPod Shuflle, a present given to me by my friend Petros. Petros used to be my downstairs neighbour, then a CS student at the UOC, who initiated...
Read more →We’re moving to a new address. The place we currently live in has become a bit problematic. First there was the (forced) public sale in April of 4 of the 8 appartments. Then 2 months later the owner put out adverts for the remaining 4 appartments. None of them have been sold yet, but...
Read more →The coast guard today evacuated around 380 passengers from a ferry due to leave Piraeus after receiving an anonymous telephone call warning that there was a bomb aboard the vessel. However, the passengers were allowed back aboard the Marina about an hour later after a search revealed no explosives. Passengers running late for their...
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