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Do that moggieman, it really is very easy now to set up regular payments for the utilities at your bank. It wasn't always this simple.. I remember the days not so long ago when we had to queue at the counters of DEH, the water company, etc, to get the "stamps," but that has all changed in ...

Lovely jubbly, moggieman, thanks for that. Bagged a bargain already.

Ah, you mean the " curly-wurlies " aka " stink worms " that seem to just emerge from the walls? They smell revolting if crushed and the birds and cats won't touch them, so I guess they are pretty toxic. Brushing them into a dustpan and dropping them into the scrub down the road d...

They must all be down our end of the island then filippos. I've just read on the internet that a fine spray of ordinary soapy water is a good roach killer. Who knew?

Never mind wasps or mozzies, I've never seen so many cockroaches around... the cats are having a fine old time chasing them down. Didn't I read somewhere that they would survive even a "nuclear winter?" Oh dear.

No, the process wasn't illegal, chrissy, as I'm sure the civil servant who got me to sign the declaration (a legal document as Warwick pointed out) would not have put her job at risk -- and she had nothing to gain by it. It's just that rules and regs in Greece are quite "elastic," and ofte...

Apropos the comments by filippos and Warwick, yes I suppose it might depend on an individual seller or dealership whether or not you are asked for a residence card when buying a car. I should have added, chrissyg, that we bought ours from a main dealership and the salesman was initially somewhat con...

chrissyg, let me assure you that you do NOT need a residency certificate to buy a car here. We have had a car for over five years and have never been resident in Greece for tax purposes nor had a residence card, whether beige, blue or any other colour. The only conditions we had to meet were these: ...

That sounds pretty fair, audacity. We paid a bit more than that 14 years ago for everything you list above, but we also had a guaranteed end stop date written in, so maybe you should agree to the 15% on condition that the project is finished within an agreed timetable. In our case it was a complete ...

Hmmm. I know the picture of police stopping a nice new car on a broad highway is merely illustrative, but can we expect a rigorous enforcement of the new law in the villages, where old boys in battered and probably uninsured pick-up trucks drive straight at you in the middle of the road? No, I don't...

Yes, I think that's three years in a row that the charge has remained the same. The nice lady in the bank said I was the first to pay. Silly me.

In the end, the problem of mess from stray cats (and dogs) is down to the behaviour of the Greek people isn't it? Why? Because by and large they still refuse to deal with the problem at source, through a comprehensive neutering regime. Some people prefer to drown kittens or puppies or throw them in ...

The Valley of the Dead gorge is certainly worth the walk, but probably not in August? Years ago we walked it from the top down, planning to get the bus back up the road, only to discover there were no buses on a Sunday! Had a good lunch then traipsed all the way back up again. No way I could manage ...

Yes, there's a good blacktop road all the way to Kato Zakros now, Guy, with a choice of the long and scenic route from the Ziros plateau via Xerokambos, as Jeff describes, or via Paleokastro and Zakros. Both offer a stunning drive. A word of advice if you're planning to lie on the beach.. there's ve...

I usually can't be bothered to get into a ding-dong on this forum but I can't let the comments aimed at me by Warwick and Brian go unanswered. In the context of Brian's original and unattributed post at the top of this thread, I was perfectly correct to describe it as a "what if" scare sto...