The second stage of my master plan has begun.
Following a nice article in the Athens News (which Maria kept the page for me), I read up on the Guardian’s Ten Rules for Writing Fiction (part 1 and part 2). Sarah Waters’ advice to write at least 1000 words a day is a good one, and [...]
Well, no, not really.
No point in talking about how badly Greece is doing, it’s all over the news.
The BBC has two interesting articles, seeing as I’m getting a lot of hits on my ‘Why Greece is in Debt’ page. This link talks about exactly what happened to Greece, which just about sums it up.
It [...]
The first part of my master plan has gone underway, here’s hoping I will see it to the end.
Starting a series of long weekends to use up some holiday leave, which makes it very easy to write huge amounts of the book, and plenty of other things too.
In the meantime, enjoy my series of photos, [...]
Nothing like a walk along the coastline in Palaio Faliro to really set the mood for the evening…
Or technically, it’s the day when people go to eat cod in Greece.
We went to Anavissos, and I have never tasted such nice cod for the nearly 5 years I’ve been here.
It was also a glorious days, as you see below:
Getting warmer in Greece finally, the day before a National Holiday, there’s many religious festivals happening, like this one near the Olympiakos Football Stadium (on my way to work)
Aside from that, last weekend Maria and I went to see The Ghost Writer (I decided to link to IMDB for films from now on, instead of [...]
Or so it looked like on the 8th March.
While these photos fail to do it justice, imagine a world where you leave your house, and the sky is orange/brown, and the whole landscape looks that colour.
This came from the sand from Egypt that occasionally comes over for a visit, bringing these kinds of [...]
New measures have been introduced to boost the currency:
Pensions freezes; Cuts in public sector pay; A increase in sales tax from 19% to 21%; Rises in taxes on fuel, cigarettes and alcohol; Rises in taxes on luxury goods.
Good news for the Euro… but this is inevitably followed by hell.
There will be a massive [...]
Going on from my previous post, there are still many problems. Despite the new austerity plans, there are other problems with getting money from Greek people. Huge strikes in Greece (forcing a run on petrol stations because fuel trucks stopped too), other parties disagreeing (namely the Greek Communist Party), and the previous government refusing to [...]