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Good afternoon Patterson, I can thoroughly recommend a guy from the rethemnon area who is a well known musician on the island but at the end of the season makes a trip to the UK. He is arriving with our stuff 6th / 7th of November so the timing is good for you. His contact details are as follows Mob...

Yes me also first time ever at the national bank of Greece in Malia, they offer a conversion which they profit from, as do most which I never accept of course, so I assume this is now another way of extracting money from us ?

Due to house sale I have a Pool Cover and Roller, fitted with floating tow and reinforced recovery, latest blue / gold heavy duty ' bubble wrap ' our pool is 8.25 x 4.00m it can be cut down with no problem. It's had two summers use, pool is drained so it's been stored rolled in the winter under UV p...

All sorted €1.05 per litre, for the last eight years he has posted the price of heating oil, when available, on his post in the same place, transpires he's run out of numbers for the sign so now it's not posted at all, the price I saw was for road diesel in the spot ' reserved ' for heating oil ...s...

Just got back from the UK and need some heating oil, seems very expensive has the subsidy been removed again ?
What is the actual going rate on the island ?
I have looked back to see if I had missed a post on the subject but can't get previous pages at the moment only page one.
Thanks in advance

I have sent you a pm
Regards
Steve

With respect to the contributors above I have a similar old story, 10 years ago a €12k bill for an old BMW worth €2k it was also an old car. I have a much more modern version, 4 years ago whereby a newer car was issued red plates, these were issued to Greeks importing cars for personal use, it meant...

Hi guys, I took my plate off a damaged bike I have and handed it in at the tax office, I was told then that in 2016 they did implement a road tax reduction dependant on when you claimed the plates back... June = 50% annual figure, makes a much better case for handing them in, no excess paperwork eit...

Have sent you a PM.
Steve

Have replied thanks

Bit of a long shot, but trying to make some plans for bringing a couple of big items over from the UK in Feb 2015 and, having done this before, wondered whether anyone perhaps with animals and an amount of personal stuff would be interested in a van share. I buy it and bring it one way, you buy it f...

Does anyone have or know of a property to rent for someone arriving shortly to oversee build of new house, he reckons 6 months from october but he is yet to learn the greek time scales !

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Does anyone have personal experience of a Parkinson Specialist here on Crete ? Preferably in Heraklion or to the East but would be willing to travel anywhere on high recommendation. This would be for a private consultation. Thanks in advance for your help. Please email me on stevemartin911@aol.com S...

Have sent you a pm

I bought a Greek reg. car privately and did not need a residence permit, went with the greek guy who owned the car and the question was raised but only had to sign some sort of declaration, it was 18 months ago in agios nikalaos NE Crete. I would not declare residence if you are not, in these days o...