Reading Time: 2 minutesGeorges Simenon (1903-1989) was a Belgian writer who wrote more than 200 novels. He created the famous fictional detective Jules Maigret. As a fan of Georges Simenon’s fiction books, I have always been curious about how these stories would be adapted to the screen. Recently, in 2024, the French film Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesVisit to Lyon Last June I visited Lyon, a very beautiful city of France. Among other interesting things to do, I visited the Lumière Museum. The Lumière brothers and Museum Dedicated to the Lumière Cinematograph and the history of the Lumière family, the Lumière Museum revisits the various Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesStudying at McGill In autumn 1981 I started my MSc in the Institute of Oceanography at McGill University. I flew from Athens to Montreal a few days before the release of the first IBM computer running MS Dos, on the 3rd of August. This day was marked by the famous Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesI happened to meet Brando once, around spring or summer 1973 … This was on Catalina Island (a large private island, off southern California). I was working alone on an isolated rocky shore, setting up food web experiments, and had not paid much attention to a man taking a nap Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn January 2005, I had a stroke that paralyzed my right arm and caused several other complications. During my recuperation, I could not work – my favorite occupation – and I began watching TV. Yes, I was one of those snotty people who didn’t watch much television, if any at Read more