The ferry arrived a little late in Patras. At 3 o’clock at night we had docked in Igoumenitsa, meaning that we were still on track then. Something must have happened thereafter, but nobody informed nobody. At around 12 at noon we drove off the ramp, one and a half hour behind schedule. We dropped...
Read more →Do you remember when I wrote about the Greek traffic rules, or rather their non-existence in this part of the world, this time around last year? Well, it turns out that the Greek system is a better system. Hey, how can it not be, these Cretan guys are thousands of years ahead of us....
Read more →It’s amazing how many things we take for granted. Until they are taken away from us. Take water, for instance, or rather, take water away, for instance. That’s what happened on Monday morning. Yvonne was about to take a shower when the water all of a sudden stopped. I went to the cellar to...
Read more →Mike Allen of The Washington Post writes: “President Bush told graduates of a Christian college Friday that the abuse of Iraqi prisoners has embarrassed the country, and he offered ‘compassionate conservatism’ as an antidote to ‘show the good heart of our country to the whole world.'” Elisabeth Bumiller writes in the New York Times:...
Read more →Well, this is going to be tougher that I thought. There are almost 20.000 pages returned by Google, after only 5 days! I have seen in my log files that googlebot visited my site, even several times since I started, but I’m still nowhere to be seen in the first 100 results. And let’s...
Read more →A warning indicator in the dashboard lit up yesterday when we went to Karteros. The explanation in the manual said “bring the car immediately to a dealer”. Since no car dealer is open on Saturday or Sunday, that would have to wait till monday. Today I didn’t risk driving with it, unless it was...
Read more →After I installed the MT-Blacklist to keep the comment spammers away from this weblog I had a couple of quiet days, spam-fighting wise. Not for long though. For over a week now, a certain Jay, sometimes calling himself Ray, both at home at this most productive of all spammers’ nests called Hotmail (yes, another...
Read more →For the last 2 days we’ve had an extremely warm south wind blowing, the Notiás as it is known locally. During such days most people complain about bodily inconveniences such as lack of energy, headaches, tearing eyes, and a whole lot more. We are probably not integrated enough to experience this. Give us a...
Read more →You heard of Sasser, haven’t you? What, you didn’t? Where have you been the last 24 hours? I hope you’re not that irresponsible a person that you don’t check the virus warning bulletins every now and then. You should, you know, because there is danger lurking out there all the time. There is only...
Read more →Everything they do differently here. I’ve never heard people wishing each other a “nice first of May”. Here they do that starting on the eve of May 1st, and all through the day itself. It’s very nice. By the way, people also wish each other a “nice week” on Monday and a “nice month”...
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