Mattie Hermans of the Open University in Heerlen is the second to visit Crete since we got here. I promised him I would hold for him the nice weather we’ve been enjoying for the last couple of weeks. Unfortunately, I have been found not powerful enough for that task. This morning the weather completely...
Read more →Albeit a little late, I’m glad I can report to you that we had a wonderful Easter. On Friday 25th in the morning we did a round of the consulates to promote Yvonne’s activities. We were most welcomed in most cases by the honorary consuls themselves. In most cases, because only 3 of the...
Read more →Okay, 1st of April is over now, we’re once more dealing with the harsh reality of every day. The movers came in with our stuff yesterday. We had exceeded our quota of truck space (we knew that when we loaded our belongings of course) and we had to pay a little extra. Still 50%...
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 →Thursday already! Time flies when you’re having a good time! It’s hard to believe that I have been here for 2 months already. Just one more week and I will fly back to Belgium to make preparations for the final move. Actually I haven’t been doing a lot this week. I was terrible weather,...
Read more →Saturday had been a reasonably nice day. It was dry for a change and the temperature had risen to 15 degrees. I thought it would be good idea for me to go to Kastelli Kissamou on Sunday. Sunday morning greeted me with a grey sky, the type that disappears unnoticed into the equally grey...
Read more →The weather, the whole weather and nothing but the weather. It has been one heck of a month, weather wise. To start with, we had massive leaks in the sky, throwing a wet curtain all over the island for days on end. When it wasn’t raining, a fierce and cold wind from the north...
Read more →It was half past nine in the evening and they were six — in their early forties — at a table when I entered the “kafeníon”. No other customers were present except those men. I sat down at a table a little bit out of the way and ordered a “karafáki” and “mezé”. The...
Read more →This morning we had a little white surprise. I told you already that it had been relatively cold in the last couple of days. Instead of the 18 to 20 degrees centigrade we had in the first weeks of my arrival, we have been at around 10 degrees or less lately. As you can...
Read more →It’s been fridgin’ cold for 3 days now. Not so much outside, but inside the apartment. There is some problem with the central heating and either the technicians haven’t been able to fix it, or they haven’t been. Period. I had been chilled to the bones for the last couple of days, so today...
Read more →