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Yes after spending the last two weeks in the village with only 11 other people, I was apprehensive about our regular every three week trip to PAGNI on Thursday ...however the hospital was super clean very few people and we were in and out in about three hours with no drama, in 'normal 'times it can ...

Have a mooch around electro net in Sitia ...The staff there are clued up about stuff like that

I don't have a copy of this book but it looks great , and Amazon have it in paper back for 9 .95 ....It gets good reviews ..

..... A Modest Proposal ....

Could you use Raki ..to de-virus your hands ?..I've got gallons of that ...

Yes littering is a problem...I have a few older Cretan friends who I have worked with over the years picking grapes , harvesting olives , pruning , watering or whatever ,,you do a few hours work and someone says " it's coffee time " and various bags and boxes appear ...We all sit down and ...

Kamisiana I agree the joys of Greek electric. I once changing a light, switched of the electric and started changing the light, held the Green (earth) and got blown of the ladder. Even with the electric switched off the earth was still alive........Im convinced Greek electricians are colour blind. ...

Yes sounds like need switches on the electrical circuits to the panels or just use the circuit breaker in the main panel which seems to be the normal method anyway. When I was try to get our spark to fit a switch for this purpose it was a alien concept ended up buying a UK timer switch to fit mysel...

Yeah I agree with YoMo2 ....need more info . Have you tried leaving the switches you described in the on position ...and switching off the power that feeds them at the trip switch / in the fuse box /consumer unit.. that is how the folk in my village switch the immersion heaters on and off... I 'm we...

I don't understand ..when you say you have 17 ...17 what ?... what type of system have you got ?.When I installed our very simple solar water heating system with one tank and one solar panel, we did not have any electric power at the house , at that time I only came over in the summer to work on the...

Don't worry too much Tom . Cheap private health insurance can be found in order to fit the legal requirements so you can get your residence permits . And getting simple treatment privately is fast and not very expensive....

Tom ....Sadly I think you are going have to stump up for private health insurance for the first year , until your UK state pension kicks in ....then with an S1 from DWP you will qualify for IKA or EOPYY as it is known now (plus an AMKA number like an NI number) ...however when you get your state pen...

I have never found a right hand drive a problem here but I just gave up when the customs people asked for 12 thousand euros for Greek plates...I 'm glad you managed to get it sorted for a reasonable price Houmeri91 ... How did you swing it ?

Yes I had a Microsoft call this morning ...Youngish male with a slight American accent ...he asked if I spoke English ..I replied yes I do ..then he started the " I am phoning from Microsoft "...I interrupted him with "Wait two mins I think you need to speak to our IT dept" and l...

Never had a call like this ...but if I did I think I would say ..."wait one moment and I put you through to our IT department" ....then find something very important to do in the garden ...