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The form is quite specific about where you started your journey from and where you pass through.

Returning via Athens you should have enough time (it has to be less than 48 hours) to fill it in before leaving Crete.

Joan

"Can someone explain why 6 at a Taverna Table is safe and 7 or more is not??" Actually probably even 6 is not "safe", but it's a reasonable compromise. Same as for lots of rules. There has to be a cut-off point to stop large groups. If they had said 8 was permitted, people would ...

Just for the record, we are being quoted 150 euros for the policy Stavros says is up to 130 euros depending on age...

Joan

Thanks for these replies.
We had to have AMKA numbers for our beige permits, so we have these.
Of course Boris and his current games worry us!
Joan

I'm interested in if/how expats are obtaining private health cover to satisfy the requirements of their new biometric permits. We currently spend just under 6 months a year in Crete, and would have no problem making that just over 6 months. We are tax-resident in the UK. We obtained our beige reside...

The implication was that it was in all cases - but I don't know.
We were not planning to use an exemption certificate.

Joan

I agree with the advice given in this thread, particularly to sort it out first. We originally planned to import a car this spring, and had several (personal and emailed) conversations with the lady who deals with this in the port of Souda. She is called Erika (?spelling), and is on ekt_cha@otenet.g...

Warwick says "I am not certain but I think there is a cap on all university places." That is certainly true in England.

Joan

We checked our annual insurance policy conditions (with LV) today. What we were told agreed with what Maud says above. LV used France as an analogy. The FCO is now advising citizens not to travel to France. If people were already there when the advice not to travel came out they are covered, because...

This is indeed pretty alarming, although hardly surprising given that many Greeks are holidaying at or visiting tourist locations in Greece (as are many Brits holidaying in or visiting Bournemouth and the South West etc, with similar consequences). It would be good to know something about the distri...

All very interesting. Updates awaited with interest.

Joan

Aha - thanks - that's really interesting. So they may have had no cases at all...

Joan

Our previous plans to spend a day (from the Kissamos ferry) on Antikythira have been thwarted by rough seas, although we have had a excellent few days in Kythera. So Antikytira was definitely on the list for 2020. I haven't checked the timetable for this year but it was possible previously to do a d...

We have no mobile phone signal at all at our flat in England, and reception is very variable indeed for us here - anything from reasonable to zero. We send free messages and make free calls from our mobile phones using Whatsapp through our wifi in both places (BT in England, Tooway here). The recipi...

Checked after passport control at Chania and Heraklion too, of course, so need to be ready.

Those with the appropriate numbers are diverted to be tested. It's all very quick and efficient.

Joan