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Around Town |
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Cultural Centre for the Old Town |
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Plans are also on the table for a new public library. This is sorely needed—not everyone can access the university library at Gallou, and the current public library (within the grounds of Agia Barbara church in the town centre) is woefully inadequate for a town of this size. Finally, the Greek government has allocated 7 million Euro for a new archaeological museum for Rethymnon. The only problem at the moment seems to be deciding on the location….and as many of us know, this type of wrangling can take up some time here on Crete! |
AGOR Didn’t exactly win…. |
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| This, in the true ‘Jimmy Hill’ non-partisan school of punditry (!) is filed by our sports desk. “It was in any case a huge achievement for our boys to make it to the cup final and to take on the ‘basketball powerhouse’ that is Panathinaikos on their home turf in the OAKA stadium in Athens. In a footballing analogy, this is akin to Wycombe Wanderers playing Arsenal at Wembley. And it is worth noting that the price of one Panathinaikos player is more than the entire budget for the Rethymnon Team. | Our players were a real credit to Rethymnon, and to Crete in general in terms of the way in which they conducted themselves on the court. Some so-called sophisticated Athenians have a tendency to view Cretans as wild, anarchic, volatile and unpredictably trigger happy with semi-automatic weaponry. NOT SO. Our young men were true sporting ambassadors, at all times behaving with grace, dignity, courtesy and style, which is exactly the way it should be. |
Even when it was clear that defeat was inevitable, our players still
didn’t give up, and worked hard for every point. The final score 87—48,
might be seen as somewhat of a rout, but doesn’t actually reflect our
team’s performance. Our team were extremely gracious in defeat, and have
provided Rethymnon with some valuable positive publicity. World leaders:
take note.”
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Would you sunbathe here? |
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first charter planes have touched down, town is gradually starting to
fill up with visitors, slowly but surely we are moving out of winter
into glorious spring, and guess what….THEY’RE USING THE TOWN BEACH AS A
CAR-PARK! Even though there is plenty of beach stretching east from
Delfini, we still find this absolutely unbelievable.This cannot give our foreign visitors a good impression. It strikes us that sometimes here there is a tendency to bite the hand that feeds. As for the long running saga of the Tourist Police, EOT and Port Authority, need you ask, gentle reader? They’re still surrounded by brick dust in the shell of the old Lavyrinthos building, and seem to be no nearer to moving into the Delfini. |
Wind Farm in Akoumia |
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A lease was signed last month between ΔΕΗ (national electricity
company) and the community of Lampis which essentially gives the
go-ahead for the setting up of a wind farm near Akoumia (south of Spili).
An environmental feasibility study still has to be completed—this is
expected to take another couple of months. ΔΕΗ hope to have the farm up
and running by some time in 2009. |
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