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I never cease to be amazed and impressed by the number of contributors to this board who have PhDs in hindsight. The question I've asked myself most frequently is, "How would the clever people posting here have dealt with the problems if they were the ones who actually had to make the decision...

YoMo2 wrote:

filippos wrote:....... "Oh, don't bother with that. Everything is as planned and nobody will ever know the document wasn't signed."

Don't you just love Greece? :D
Andrew

Emphatically yes!

It is possible to get a Power of Attorney when you are in the UK but it is more complicated so I would advise doing it here in Greece. Warwick Unless things have changed the spouse who is leaving first can grant P of A to the remaining partner. It's now 10 years since we had exactly that situation....

Most of the time I just look out of the window especially in summer. I occasionally look at wunderground if I'm planning going some distance on a photo outing but more than anything that's to consider what I should be wearing. If I'm just going to local shops I don't much care what the weather does;...

I use Wunderground, 10Km as the crow flies from Kalyves to airport.

DJ wrote:What a nasty piece of work you are Saddler. What a spouter of negativity. Go away - disappear and do your pathetic critiques somewhere else. We don't want you.

Don't encourage the silly bugger.

Yorgo wrote:The time when reporting fellow citizens for breaking a rule invented by a politician enforced by a police officer, as if a major crime, is the time when we should all give up.

Hear, hear!

Frying pans, baseball bats!!!!! Really? Crete has the highest ratio in Eurpoe of guns to the population, I've been offered so many guns, since I've lived here, single female, you must have a gun, just in case of a burglar! I have a dog, not the biggest, but a Cretan hound, he lives in the house, he...

Many oldies 'go cabriolet' as a Greek friend told me several years ago.

... If you don't have room for a roundhouse swing try a cover drive. There's a fair bit of soft tissue as well as bone in the target area of that shot. Or a straight thrust to the solar plexus? Hardly any room needed at all. Warwick That will work with a rolled up newspaper (provided you don't have...

Frying pan next to the door in case a burglar calls! Bob. Quick trip to a sports shop and buy a baseball bat. With a frying pan you have to get fairly close to someone who may be quite agile. You may not land a good blow or they manage to grab your arm and wrench the pan away. Also, if you do land ...

In March, friends of ours, permanent residents here, who had been on holiday to India had been planning to visit family in the UK on their way home. They were informed about the regulations restricting travel to Crete ... ... In Athens they were stopped at Passport control ... ... This is such a gr...

Kilkis wrote:As with most laws it relies on the risk of being caught as a deterrent from breaking the rule. ... ...

Agreed and I suspect the size of potential fines helped to persuade many to comply.

In March, friends of ours, permanent residents here, who had been on holiday to India had been planning to visit family in the UK on their way home. They were informed about the regulations restricting travel to Crete and decided to forget staying in England, catching one of the last flights before ...

Mr O'Leary is not a happy bunny https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/may/18/ryanair-chief-michael-oleary-uk-mismanaging-coronavirus-crisis Were I in Mr O'Leary's situation I'd be saying much the same.. That said his firm is in a better position than most of his competitors; Jet 2 has struggled...