Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Greece gets gold, silver and bronze in sexual Olympics

Oh my, tempus fugit

Greece news

Feast Days, Festivals & Events in Greece (updated)

The Parthenon Marbles may be returned to Greece – on loan

Greece have taken gold (again!), silver and bronze in the sexual Olympics

A Greek woman was arrested in Athens after seducing a 15-year old boy she met on the net

Insanity returned to mar Greek soccer, immediately following the re-instatement of team sports after a two-week ban due to the death of a supporter

Maradonna, the ‘Hand of God’, sneaked in to a Greek hotel and talked of witnessing a Greek miracle

David Beckham’s stolen ‘Beckmobile’ has been linked to Greece

And Greece is gearing up for the UEFA Champion’s League final in Athens


Kefalonia news

Festivals & Events on Kefalonia (updated)

Dodgy dealings in Argostoli, where a computer shop is (allegedly) installing fake copies of Windows XP on to customers’ computers


Computer Corner

Buying a new computer? A beginner’s guide


More news in the discussion forums at GoingGreek.info

Friday, April 06, 2007

Stricken ship sinks off Santorini, Greece

Greek news:

Main news in Greece is the sinking of the stricken Sea Diamond and reports that a 46 year-old French passenger and his 16 year-old daughter are missing, although his wife and son are safe. Divers have been searching the sunken vessel today. There’s an interesting article at ERT News.

Computer security:

Cyber warfare has broken out between rival criminal gangs who are organizing and spreading malicious software via the internet for vast profits. If you're interested in knowing more about protecting your pc, there's...

More news in the discussion forums at GoingGreek.info

Thursday, April 05, 2007

Trojans still menacing Greece

Greek news:

A cruise ship is sinking off Santorini, up to 1600 passengers are being evacuated

A seaman has been killed off Corfu while partaking in a rescue drill

It looks like a busy Easter weekend ahead for the Greek Islands

And Trojans are still menacing Greece


Kefalonia news:

As the Captain Corelli factor slowly subsides, evidence that Kefalonia was Odysseus' Ithaka could add to tourism figures

More news and views in the discussion forums at GoingGreek.info

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Greece: government bans fun clubs

Greek news:

According to Kathimerini, Greece’s leading daily newspaper, the Greek government is abolishing fun clubs. Ah well, guess we can’t enjoy ourselves toooo much

A ‘self-healing’ house, (hopefully) resistant to earthquakes, is to be built on a Greek mountainside

Lesbians may colonise an ancient Greek island

Some years after VanGellis’ stirring composition to the film ‘Chariots of Fire’, Greece now has it’s own charabancs of fire

The Pope is keeping pieces of the Parthenon

Although opposed to nuclear power and weapons, it seems Greece hid a nuclear arsenal for forty years

Bad meat was found in the kitchens of a top Athens restaurant shortly before the leaders of Greece, Russia and Bulgaria ate there

Kefalonia news:

A Roman-era tomb has been found near Fiskardo containing gold jewelry, pottery and bronze offerings

A 5.9 magnitude earthquake recently rattled the island

A British lawyer has dropped her briefs to open a nudist hotel
(sounds like fun to me!)

More in the discussion forums at GoingGreek.info