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ACS run a good service .. I live in the far East and I bought a bike from someone in the far West of Crete a bit ago ...The seller took it to a local ACS office ...24 hours later I picked it up from my local ACS office ... I think it cost 10 or 13 Euros .. set against more than four hours drive each...

We have had stuff delivered from the UK ...and mostly it's worked fine ...but tracking is the key, and phoning the courier as soon as you get the change over tracking number ...

Olduffa...a road trip is a bit of adventure your are dead right .. .I did it a few times before we moved here in 2004 I drove here and back loaded with tools ,and materials and stuff in my volvo estate to fix up this ruin ,whenever I had gaps in my work in the UK ...freedom of movement is great .......

Yes, in a former life I worked for a company transporting mixed loads into mainland Europe from the UK before the UK was a member of the customs union..Let us hope we don't have to go back anywhere to the very complex paperwork we had to deal with then .....

I also do not know of and know no one who knows anyone who has had COVID19 (84). For me this is the exact empirical proof, arguing a pandemic does not exist. Well my son in law has it ...he caught it while he was in hospital for an unrelated problem ....he has not seen his 5 year old sons face to f...

Yeah I felt it ..not massive but as you say went on for a bit ...I was in the shower and the bathroom light started tinkling ....

And me ....

I had this problem on this house years ago ...the ceilings in this house are very high so I made a 50mmx50mm timber framework with 50mm foam insulation above and T 'n'G below ...It works well, in the winter when the snow is deep on my roof and the other occupied houses in the village the roofs are w...

My mother was anti vaccination I don't know why ... I went through my childhood without any vaccination, I did not really think about it until I was 18 and wanted to do the" bum about in Europe" thing and there was a Cholera epidemic in Spain. I had to have them all ....that involved getti...

When I moved here I kept my old UK bank account and used it to continue paying my national insurance and my pension ....I now have it set up so my pension and my state pension get paid into it and I move bits to my Greek bank when I need to . They won't let me have a bank card or a cheque book ,so I...

Nice one Warwick..Who awards the Ig Nobles...and is it possible to make a donation? May be we should start a crowdfunding project and get Elon Musk to send them to the moon ....

I think some people must be more sensitive to earthquakes than others? I expect there's some truth in that. Do you remember the (powerful) earthquake January 8 2006 and then another powerful one on January 6 2008 - apart from the "odd" date inversion, the first was a horror and the earth ...

Yes Warwick they both open fine ..with the option to save them to Dropbox or print them ...might be useful...thanks

It's bad I know ...but I think we must stay at home if we can ,and if we must travel we must wear masks and take care ...we can rebuild after we have eradicated this virus ...

solitude1 wrote:Don`t forget to take everything with you including your inside leg measurement.
Good luck.

And your cousin Manolis ....