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Orson Wellies - great name! and what a detailed post. I shall be browsing some of those sites myself!

Chrissyg ( and anyone else) if you are having difficulty find local news here are some websites. The first two are in English, the third is in Greek, but if you like you can scroll down the page to the bottom and click on the Union Jack flag. Hope that helps, keeptalkinggreece.com chaniapost.eu apok...

Hi I have not bought one here. Do measure exactly in cm your old UK one to get exact size. We made a mistake in measuring our US king size and ended up about 8cm too narrow because of differences in US to UK sizes. I would also look online at stroma to gauge current trends and improvements over the ...

...You surely cant think we can all stay at home until next year when the vaccine might save us. What everybody else does is up to them but apart from going out to get food and drink I can stay at home pretty much indefinitely if I feel the need to do so. My local supermarket would even deliver my ...

Kamisiana, there is an incredible number of Greek students who study at UK universities, and others around the world.

Warwick thank you so much for taking the time to post this info. I shall now go and study it all!

Thanks for the update, poor man is going to be swamped at Christmas! I wonder if this will be a permanent measure.

I had just read this the other day about new postcodes to be introduced.

https://www.apokoronaslife.gr/?p=75349

Wow, Warwick, that’s fascinating! Yep Bob it is great to learn all this stuff and your expression sums it up perfectly! Yorkshire?

I know Warwick, I know...I was trying really hard to be objective! As a Greek friend of mine often likes to quote ‘ logic is a good Greek word, but many Greeks are missing the logic chip’ Glad to hear you passed through without difficulty Bob. Jean - surely algorithm is another Greek root word? Ok ,...

I have now read in Kriti24 that they are/have removed the roadworks and will resume after September (so I have heard from a local friend). Due to horrendous hold-ups with queues... “In order to inform all citizens, but mainly of drivers and passengers who suffered for many hours due to the works car...

@ yin&yang
I thought you were thinking of “when I go out in me lame’ (gold) suit”

sorry hehe.

Thanks Warwick & Ros. I too hadn’t seen the government link. and have saved it.

https://www.apokoronaslife.gr/?p=75516

Scroll down to bottom of link to translate to English.

Traffic lights back on road where landslide was near junction of Megala Horafia on the highway.

Thanks Warwick and Yin &Yang. I think Crete tip was the one I couldn’t remember. Have already been looking at worldometer, but it seems to have faltered of late.
Sometimes I have found Greek newspapers to offer links, but not often. My quest continues...

A friend has emailed, wondering where I get up to date info. I remember that Warwick, Ros, Maud, Guy and others have posted links on here throughout the pandemic. I am having difficulty trawling through all of our posts to find them. If you have solid info pertaining to Crete, could I ask that you p...