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bobscott wrote:They have been very helpful in getting new IKA booklets (to save the long queue) and Greek driving licences and renewals.

My British driving license is just about to run out, so I need to get a Greek one. What did you need to do this and can I just go to KEP and get it all done?

I just had to clean this off a machine. Every time I ran AVG the virus program didn't let it finish. It rebooted the machine or bluescreened it. I got rid of most of it by running AVG and Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware in safe mode. But then had a whitelisted sys file infected that AVG wouldn't remove. ...

What are zombers?

The 4th of October is World Animal Day.

The 4 October was originally chosen for World Animal Day because it is the feast day of Francis of Assisi, a nature lover and patron saint of animals and the environment.

Ironic?

This is stupid EU bureaucracy.

Market forces would mean that as eco bulbs get cheaper people would gradually replace the old style ones.

There is no need to waste public money having meetings to make laws like this.

I always just hit ctrl+t to open new tabs in all browsers.

Car park? You mean in Crete you don't do it the Athenian way? Just pull up on the pavement directly outside the shop and if that's taken just double park next to the car that took the spot. Don't worry about the mums and their pushchairs they can use the road! If you do that the shop keeper will eve...

When you split a thread you could edit the first post, as admins can, on the new thread and just put a link to the topic it came from and something like "split from this thread"

I am registered for tax here as a resident.
I had a bill for 11 Euros for a piece of land I own.

Well at least they stopped smoking in my office, so now I don't have to breath it at work.

Now it's just whether I will be able to go out in the winter to eat or not. Time will tell.

If you eat (northern?) Greek style of putting lots of dishes in the centre of the table and everybody digging in then the more people there are the cheaper it is per person. Seems to happen with starters in Crete but people here seem to prefer their own main dish. This happens everywhere I go. So I...

I heard it was fully booked until September.

That maybe Greek humour though, because that always goes woosh over my head.

I would definitely change the password.

Sometimes I get mail undeliverable messages, for mails I didn't try to send, and changing the password stops this.

It would give you peace of mind no one else is logging into your account.

http://www.helleniccomserve.com/residencerulesEUcitiz.html The funny thing is I have been here [Greece] 9 years and never had one. I work, pay taxes, had tax rebates, pay IKA and have used IKA for an operation and some medical equipment I need. I own property and a motorcycle all in my name only. Th...