Full property details

Finally we have the full description together with photographs for the house being sold in Neohori. Please click here to see all the information.

If you are interested there's a link on the page to email the owners directly.

Of sealing wax and string

Yes, we're back online, so you can guess that everything's repaired.

Monday morning, our neighbour called over to tell us that they had spoken to OTE this morning and the cut line had not been reported. Perhaps the guys from the truck were worried they would be charged for the repair? Anyway, our neighbour explained the problem to OTE, so we wait. We were due to go out at 2pm and guess what, the OTE truck turns up at 1.20pm. We wrote down the names and phone numbers of the three houses for the guy to work from and Lainie went over to give him the information. We had to leave after a few minutes, so all we could do was hope. The last thing we saw was the engineer climbing the pole with the long end of the broken cable tide to a rope on his waist. Apparently he had no cable with him to replace the broken section, so he was just going to put a knot in it.



So, here's the picture to prove that you can make a joint anywhere you want. The good thing is that everything works, ISDN, ADSL and we can communicate again. Hats off to OTE, or the engineer we have in this area, he'll get it working no matter what the problem is!

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind

On Saturday morning we were chatting with friends using Skype over the internet when suddenly we couldn't hear them. My first reaction was that the laptop we were using had lost connection with our wireless network within the house. The wireless hub we have is supposed to have quite a good range, but all the concrete and reinforcing iron in the walls and floors in the house almost mean that have to be able to physically see it. We found that the laptop works on a table on our balcony where we often sit, but if you move it 20cm to the right on the table you loose the signal.

So I started moving the laptop towards the door and checking the internet browser for web pages; nothing from those. Then I tried browsing the local network to see my other machine where email is received and found that was working, so we were in range of the wireless router. Ah, it must be a problem with the internet connection in some way, so I went to look at the physical connections to see what was happening. The first thing I noticed was that the lights on our ISDN box were out, so we didn't have any connection with the exchange.

A small flash in my head, I had just noticed a truck coming up the road passed us. Quickly looking out of the window, there he was stopped in the road. It was one of the trucks that have their own hydraulic arm for loading and unloading materials from the back. He'd just made a delivery somewhere down the road and the driven up with this arm sticking high up in the air. Of course he'd then driven into where the telephone cable crosses the road and, twannnnnggggggg. It's not only our telephone line, but also the one to our two neighbours.
Lainie called over to the two guys (in Greek) from the truck who were looking at the cables, and was told, “Yes, we'll call the office and report it”.

That was just after midday on Saturday, so now I'm sitting writing this off-line on Sunday morning.
Maybe on Monday morning OTE will arrive to repair the cable?? We are due to go out for lunch with some friends on Monday. Now I'm starting to worry that they will do it while we are out and unable to test that everything is working properly. From my experience in I.T. I know that ISDN lines have strange habits when they've been disconnected for a couple of days, in fact it's already happened with our line here.

Let's wait and see what Monday brings.

Information about house for sale

Sorry to say that we don't yet have all the details and photographs for the house for sale. However, you can now see one picture and some features about it on this page.

We will have more pictures and a full description in a few days.