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Thanks Warwick and peebee. Helpful posts.

Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing our problem. A few months ago Cosmote persuaded us to upgrade our internet router. The old one worked perfectly well but they said this new one would be better. However, since installing it, our connection to the internet drops out at random times, for a...

Thanks for the explanation, Carol and Warwick. So it seems that it's merely a coincidence that Greece has started to comply with this Schengen directive at the very moment the UK was due to leave the EU, and that the new scanning of passports at Heraklion is unconnected with Brexit? Even so, it give...

As an update to Carol's original post ... Police at Passport Control at Heraklion Airport and, I assume, at Chania too (and the ferry terminals?) are now SCANNING passports of passengers arriving on UK flights, as opposed to merely looking at them as they've done up to now. I presume they will also ...

I don't want to rekindle the spat contained in a previous thread over the definition of what is the "norm" among airlines bumping passengers to standby (and Carol has locked that thread anyway!) but it's worth pointing out that Easyjet seems to be following Aegean's example -- with remarka...

Apologies, Clio. Fair point. I got a bit carried away by the pleasure of the result. Hope you can enjoy it nonetheless.

Amid all the Brexit gloom, some happy news ... Irini Tzortzoglou, originally from a village near Heraklion, now living in Cumbria, UK, was "crowned" Masterchef 2019 on BBC1 tonight. Bravo Irini !

What, they had a pro-Brexit march in Agia ?

The Pension Service doesn't send a P60, Jeff, but you should get a personal annual letter, in early February, titled: "About the General Increases in Benefits" which will set out your state pension rate from the following April. I have used this letter as evidence for my Greek bank and acc...

Thank you Warwick, Kamisiana and GlennB. Useful to have your input. I have an engineer lined up in a couple of weeks, so I'll be happy to post my experience when it's all completed, if it helps others.

Yes, Bob. It's not been lost on observers in the UK that it's apparently OK for Rees-Mogg and the headbangers in the ERG to change their minds, but the voters are still denied the same opportunity

Has anyone recently had their property "legalised?" I have read previous posts on the topic and the very helpful explanation by Eleni Tsigarida on the main LiC site, but if any other forum members have had theirs done recently they might be able to answer the following: 1. Roughly how long...

I'm so pleased that Speaker Bercow reads the Living in Crete forum.... (See my comment on page 40 of this long and tedious thread.)

Scooby, I'm not sure the Speaker will allow May to present her "deal" a third time unless there is a material difference in the wording of the motion. As I understand it, the convention has always been that a government cannot keep presenting the same (defeated) motion in the same session ...

It looks like Brexiters have overplayed their hand. No Deal will be rejected. Extending Article 50 will be supported, but at that stage the UK will have handed control back to EU leaders, who will dictate the terms of any extension. The UK might want a short extension, but for what purpose? Nothing ...