Good thing that Felicien reminded me this morning that Yvonne should be celebrating or we would have been terribly embarrassed and not a little ashamed for having missed “KONINGINNEDAG” today! We are proud as it is that we remembered that tomorrow is a holiday here in Greece and that — what with it being...
Read more →I have 5 e-mail accounts and they fill up with spam faster than I can empty them. Lately it looks like they are targetting my .Mac account, that’s the e-mail account with wonderful integration into your operating system. That is, if you are a Macintosh user. Anyway, for those that didn’t know, I am...
Read more →We’ve had some pretty depressing weather in the last 4 days. The tourists certainly didn’t like it. Today the sun was shining bright. On the Olympic front the temperature is rising across the board: the IOC takes out insurance against the Games not happening, Mark Spitz of olympic swimming fame thinks the US team...
Read more →Today I smoked a sigarette. I don’t know why. I had this craving, totally out of the blue, since this morning. Nothing out of the ordinary happened to justify this. I’m a bit excited that Paul, Pauline, Joëlle and Bram are coming next weekend, but that’s hardly a reason to smoke. All four of...
Read more →Read in ZDNet UK News the following snippet: Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a US company that has been awarded the contract to provide IT security at the Olympics, SAIC also plans to set up an electronic fence around the Olympics, using infrared and high-resolution cameras, and vehicle tracking systems. An airborne surveillance...
Read more →The only ballad that I know of Metallica. It’s one of Yvonne’s favorites. It’s playing right now while Yvonne gets ready for a meeting with a friend. It’s four o’clock in the afternoon. We just got back from our Sunday morning drive, searching for suitable houses or plots. We didn’t find anything worth mentioning...
Read more →Beautiful day today. Yvonne and I went to the open air market at the harbour to buy our weekly portion of vitamines, in the form of vegetables mainly. We had a glass of wine at the cantina, together with 2 souvlaki’s each. Always a nice atmosphere at the cantinas. We love it more in...
Read more →The last 5 to 7 weeks have been hell, blogwise. Somehow I got on the list of a gang of blogspammers. Blogspammers are people who exploit the comment function in blog entries to fill them up with URLs for their sites. They do this because this advances their position in the search engines: the...
Read more →Not much blogging going on lately, huh? I know. I know. Entirely my fault. I’ve been wrestling with it for weeks now. Mentally, I mean. I’m trying to come up with things that are worthwhile reading. That’s where the problem lies. I ususally reject every idea that pops up in my head as not...
Read more →We are off to Matala again for the extended Easter weekend. Drop in at the Coral hotel if you are in the neighbourhood. On Sunday around noon just look behind the white building, where you’ll find us roasting the lamb above the charcoal…
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