03/03/17

[Maik]

Kef & Ithaka police are opposing a plan to send officers to the Aegean islands, citing a local shortage and the upcoming tourist season.


Skala sports ground set to get a 160,000€ refurb. inc. new grass pitch.


Ithaka should soon be benefitting from an improved internet service as a new undersea cable was laid over the past few days from Kef.

[Maik]

Bus in Patras nearly took an early bath Wednesday night. Story is in Greek but picture worth a quick click: http://www.cnn.gr/news/ellada/story/70030/patra-leoforeio-kindynepse-na-pesei-sti-thalassa-pic

[Maik]

Mobile phones: What you can and can't do when you're driving

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/39133018/mobile-phones-what-you-can-and-cant-do-when-youre-driving

[Colleywobble]

Bus in Patras nearly took an early bath Wednesday night. Story is in Greek but picture worth a quick click: http://www.cnn.gr/news/ellada/story/70030/patra-leoforeio-kindynepse-na-pesei-sti-thalassa-pic

I know things are a bit desperate in Greece but that's what you might call "Driven to the Brink"!

[HiFi]

Was told to dip his headlights?

[Maik]

Almost on the subject... mains power will be down in Lixouri area this Sunday 08:00-15:00 for essential maintenance work.

[TonyD]

Ithaka should soon be benefitting from an improved internet service as a new undersea cable was laid over the past few days from Kef.

Gordon Bennet, how bad is Ithaka's internet that a cable from Kef will provide an improvement?

[Maik]

Amazingly, internet on Kef is ahead of some parts of the UK!

[Maik]

Greece 4th in Bloomberg's 'Misery Index'

Eurozone member but crisis-battered and bailout-dependent Greece joined economic basket case Venezuela on Friday in Bloomberg's annual Misery Index for 2017, which the international business news provider says combines annual inflation and unemployment outlooks.

Venezuela and its autocratic "Bolivarian socialist" model again figured atop the index for the third straight year, with South Africa and another South American country, Argentina, separating oil-rich Venezuela from tourism-friendly Greece.

An increasingly struggling Turkey is just behind Greece.

http://www.naftemporiki.gr/story/1210762/greece-4th-in-bloombergs-misery-index-venezuela-again-tops-list

[Maik]

Mass grave of babies and children found at Tuam orphanage in Ireland
DNA analysis confirm suspicion several hundred children were buried in unmarked graves at former Catholic home for unwed mothers

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/03/mass-grave-of-babies-and-children-found-at-tuam-orphanage-in-ireland

[TonyKath]

Bus in Patras nearly took an early bath Wednesday night. Story is in Greek but picture worth a quick click: http://www.cnn.gr/news/ellada/story/70030/patra-leoforeio-kindynepse-na-pesei-sti-thalassa-pic

How the hell did it end up like that??! Looks like the end of of the The Italian Job - without Michael Cain. 

Tony