We live our lives forever taking leave - Rilke

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Sunday, 9 February 2014

Friday, February 7/2014

Looking for where to go next. Actually we're not really keen to leave as it's been the nicest winter we can remember here and pretty stormy in much coastal Europe. Our usual course would be to take a short side trip and come back here for a bit but there seems to be a shortage of obvious destinations, between politically dicey destinations and overpriced packages to places we're not desperate to visit. Don't want to leave the bookings so late that the prices soar either.

Opening ceremonies for the winter Olympics on telly tonight. Commentary in Greek but the ceremony not really highly language dependent. Could be getting a lot more tv on the internet - and still can in reception - but the wifi on the fourth floor, always weak, has almost disappeared. Possibly as the hotel fills up the extra users are the kiss of death. So any serious use is now from the lobby. Although we get assuming very quickly: it's not many years since the existence of internet cafés seemed amazing. (Just discovered how to put the accents on letters with the ipad mini keyboard!)