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We spend about half of the year in Crete and about half in England. I realise that I have learned the roads that I use. On the roads I use here I drive on the right, on those that I use in England I drive on the left. I look at the road in front of me and know it and respond. The roads here are much...

Not answering your question but...we smile when we see the car with Heraklion plates which is around in our home town in Sussex. It's often parked quite close to the Greek taverna. I guess the owners drive to and fro as we do... When we were considering importing our English car to Crete we had some...

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Joan

Re Warwick's reply they'd already said on the Easyjet site that since it was an "extraordinary" happening outside of the airline's control there would be no compensation for the delay (it was well under 3 hours late anyway). They were pretty sharpish getting the return flight off - three h...

(Apologies to an earlier contributor about the title!) Does anyone know what was happening at the airport yesterday afternoon? We went to collect a family member off the usual 8 am-ish Easyjet from Gatwick yesterday, Aug 9th. It had taken off ¾ hour late so we expected arrival about 14:10 (due 13:55...

UK drivers have to renew their licences every 3 years once they reach the age of 70. They do self-certify - but there is a system of random medical checks (which I remember being told was for 10% of older drivers). Other UK drivers also have to renew every 3 years - eg my son who is much younger but...

Re the above "Milano , Bologna ,Rimini, Ancona a good fast road ..much too fast for some ...doing 90mph in me Volvo ...with a wall of artics to the right of me and Lamborghinis tailgating, flashing headlights..." we always do this stretch on a Sunday when there are very few artics.

Joan

I think it all stops in January 2020 - so I have a few more months to dither/decide!

Joan

I have a Windows 10 laptop which I use for work - easy and no problems. I also have a Windows 7 desktop in England and a Windows 7 laptop in Crete, both several years old. In both cases I tried to upgrade to Windows 10, which I was more than happy to do. In both cases the upgrade failed at the last ...

Re total costs...we've just tried to do a full cost-benefit analysis, because we are wondering whether to import our car. It will all hinge on the import cost, which is currently being negotiated with the powers that be at Souda. We've driven once or twice a year for several years, via France, Switz...

We could buy and bring sets out in a month's time, when we will be driving down - if that's any help.

Both together would come to about £35 from Amazon.

Joan

We collected and delivered a guest there in the last ten days. The first 20 minutes are free, which we managed on delivery. Collection of our guest on arrival took longer, as usual. I wasn't there but my husband had some fun paying - I think he had to go to a machine first to pay before exiting. A b...

I've not been able to access the forum for a few days, but just to say thank you for the advice. We landed at Chania courtesy of Easyjet at 13:45, shopped at Synka in Souda, and then turned onto the Ethniki towards Mournies. By this time it was mid-afternoon. Quite soon after exiting for the hospita...

Thanks everyone for the reassuring suggestions.

We don't travel for another few days - I may be in touch about the loo seat nearer to the time.

Joan

Does anyone know of a store in western Crete which sells orthopaedic aids suitable for someone who has recently had a hip replacement? Things like raised loo seats, grabbers etc.

Joan