Oct 4th, 2008 by Digizaz
Right now as I write there is a storm heading across from the Lixouri area. Lixouri has already been hit and about 4 fires have been started with the severe storm conditions.
I now need to get off here LOL!
Oct 3rd, 2008 by Digizaz
Well the weather finally changed dramatically over the last couple of weeks. The initial drop in temperatures was dramatic but has risen again! What we are experiencing now are intense humid conditions coupled with the odd storm. We have been fairly lucky this week in all, managing to dodge the rainfall on the tours. The forecast after the weekend seems to be hopeful. Check out the weather for the next 7 Days
We had a little wobble the other morning, not that I felt a thing, but around 4.1 on the RS
I will be back in a couple of days to update! Here our lives this month became much busier than previous years in September, but as now many places are starting to shut up early, and the planes in to Kef become less and less the island will start to slip into the winter season!
J*
Sep 16th, 2008 by Digizaz
The devastating announcement about XL airways has left many on Kefalonia ’shell shocked’ to say the least. And whilst of course all our sympathies go out to over 1000 holidaymakers on Kefalonia that were suddenly told ‘you may have no flight home. Thoughts must also be spared for the staff that were here to face the bitter truth that you won’t be paid and you must pay for your own tickets home. Then there is the reality on a small island such as this, the impact of something like this is ‘far reaching’ For eg; People lost their jobs there and then! On an island that has only 6months employment in Tourism, there are no companies to give them work, you cannot walk from one job to another on Kefalonia except maybe (and I do mean maybe) at the beginning of the season. Your job is *your job* for 6 months. In that six months you will be paying into a system called ‘IKA’, Every month 25 stamps accumulated over the 6 months for the last ‘two seasons’ will give you a small winter benefit that is vital to keep you here during the winter! Because the companies, hoteliers etc. have now found themselves stranded, the bottom line is that people who would normally get that small amount of money in the winter, May not get it. They are a month short of their IKA and this could make the difference between surviving here and not surviving..*It is that simple* Well we might say “Well ok but their bosses will pay them surely? Well yes one would like to presume this, But what happens if their boss is owed money from the beginning of the season from a company that just went bankrupt? I hear of many that have not been paid yet, this is not pennies, this runs into tens of thousands of euros! I know of 1 company alone here that is owed 250,000 euros, and that is just one.
My sympathy of course to the thousands and thousands of tourists who have had a problem it was an incredible shock!
Right now my thoughts and concerns are most definitely with the people that try to survive here on an island that has become ridiculously expensive, where the larger companies only pay their staff desperately low wages of between 700 and a 1000 euros a month. Which they have to budget around, and try to work out how, together with their winter benefit, of an even more hideous 400 euros per month for only 5 months in the winter, they will ever survive!!
The long term effect of this closure could be far more serious than people realise. It may be that there will be less jobs available next season. It also is a stark reality that people won’t be able to stay here any longer! Hotel, rooms and appartments will themselves be forced into a state of bankruptcy!
The future is not so rosy on Kefalonia right now and I for one worry about the future of those that remain here permanently!
Jackie
Sep 12th, 2008 by Digizaz
This news has just broken!If you have booked your holidays through any of the following Below…please visit the website for further information! This company have ceased trading as of today~
XL Leisure Group Plc, XL Airways UK Limited, Excel Aviation Limited, Explorer House Limited, Aspire Holidays Limited, Freedom Flights Limited, Freedom Flights (Aviation) Limited, The Really Great Holiday Company plc, Medlife Hotels Limited, Travel City Flights Limited, Kosmar Villa Holidays plc – All in Administration (the Companies)
This news has just broken today!
Sep 12th, 2008 by Digizaz
Yesterday I was out on tour and without my camera 
All day airforce jets were above us, as we are in the training ground, and making jet trails in the sky! Ok that may not sound particularly interesting I guess but really it was quite amazing to watch them line the jet trails up. By the time I got home it was a little too late to really do anything but I did manage to get a few shots in!
Aug 30th, 2008 by Digizaz
My site with the flash albums has been updated you will now find an album with trees and bushes! There could be several more of trees and bushes lol!
J*
Aug 25th, 2008 by Digizaz
The latest updates to the main site can be found here and also the latest desktop wallpaper which is an alternative of Mirtos beach a little different to the normal type of shot LOL! This is just a preview go to the main site to find the size you wish to download! You can click for a small preview but the larger ones are available on Visions Main
Aug 22nd, 2008 by Digizaz
The ducks are auditioning for the re-make of CCM I think it could be a hit!
A little explanation: Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is the film that was filmed on Kefalonia in 2001. During the film there is a sequence that shows the lovers on a Jetty! When we did the tours, one of the most commonly asked questions was…where is the Jetty?
Aug 19th, 2008 by Digizaz
The fires that sweep across the country in summer are horrific and many villages, and People, and their crops , birds and animals, are all in danger at these times. When the mercury rises to 35 to 40celicus, coupled with strong gusting winds, that fan the flames and give the firefighters a devil of a job to control these fires, we wonder if anything will survive. The people fight to save their homes and livelihoods as the land turns to charcoal. Then suddenly there is a glimmer of light as you see the first green shoots appear. Or the leaves of a tree that survived against the odds!
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Aug 18th, 2008 by Digizaz
Well the festival all went well on the 16th August, and whilst there was a big turn out one or two of us agreed it did not seem as busy as normal. That’s ok we dont mind at all lol!
The oddest thing this year was that all the people that lay down in the road did not seem to be doing it for the right reason. They seemed to do it just to say they did it almost as a good luck thing (this is just a couple of our opinions mind you) There were lots of children healthy and seemingly normal, young and old women and men. I did not actually spot what I thought to be any needy cases which is normally the way. Anyway they were unlucky as the cask approached it was quite a shock to many that the cask was being carried alongside them not over them. So if they were doing it for simply good luck..it ran out right there and then.
There are a lot of photographs and I have spent most of the day uploading to Facebook as these are general photographs feel free to pass the links to interested people around! There are almost a 100 photos for you to browse through! I hope you enjoy them~!
**Note**If you had a problem accessing these photos before…I have just redone the links to this * Sept 20th (Please try again) Any problems leave me a message here!
