Back on track

It’s been a while since I put anything readable on this blog. Mostly due to my summer vacation (and my summer vacation mood ever since i got back to my Stockholm) .

Now It’s time to go back on track and follow the usual working routines as far as possible, thus I will be posting more often.For the time being I will try and bring back some things from the past 40 days during my vacation in Greece, and not only.

Here we go:

• Dutch Police rules! Last week I had to report the loss of my wallet at the police station in Scheveningen, The Hague, and i must admit i have never experienced such service. I was even offered a refreshment while waiting for the officer to fill in the report . For the record my wallet was found and returned at the Dutch Railway.
• I have been traveling a lot the past year and I must say that I appreciate airline services both on board and on the ground as quite important. During my vacation i had the chance to experience both good and very poor quality of services in terms of attitude and politeness. On my way to Greece, flying with Lufthansa, I had to stop in Frankfurt where the ladies on the transit desk where extremely helpful, friendly, polite and really willing to help (more than being typical) as they did. On the other hand, During my stay in Greece, I flew with Aegean (first flight of the day to Heraklion on July 26th). No trouble there for me, however, i couldn’t help noticing the attitude of the flight attendant towards a couple of tourists sitting next to me. I guess being polite is not something her strong competence. Of course one cannot generalize (I’ve seen it happening with other airlines too) either in favor or against one airline. I realized how important good service is and how much can it affect one’s perception towards a whole airline. Once again I brought back previous thoughts of mine on customer satisfaction.
• The famous iPhone update, version 2.0 (haven’t tried 2.02 yet), slowed down a bit my iPhone 2G! The iPhone is out in Greece since August 22nd; all problems solved !
• After 4 weeks of vacation in Greece I still feel that Greeks have become more impolite and smile less and less nowadays, like i have said in the past.
• Watching Oedipus At Colonus & Oedipus Rex at the ancient theater of Epidaurus was one of the highlights of my summer. Simply amazing!
• Greek food is well known, especially Cretan dishes & cheese (ξύγαλο rules!), which during this summer I enjoyed a lot along with some traditional Cretan raki!
  

  Cretan Raki & Meze

• Was this supposed to be an Olympic summer? The only think reminding me of it was the daily doping report of the Greek Olympic team. Once again everyone is against the Greeks. Simply pathetic!
• Η Καθημερινή έκανε λόγο για την “έρευνα” που έκαναν οι Γκρινιάρης, ~~Α~~, magica, Jaywalker, internetakias, Anilikos, Jim Hellas και η αφεντιά μου για την ακρίβεια βασικών προιόντων σε κάποιες ευρωπαικές χώρες εν συγκρίση με την Ελλάδα.