How to find your 2019 property tax statement online – and print it
ENFIA property tax notifications for property owners in Greece are now available online at www.gsis.gr . If your accountant has nor sent you the tax demand, which […]
Ten year old mystery of the suspicious death of Jean Hanlon in Crete
Following a UK Channel 5 documentary entitled ‘Murdered in Paradise : The Killing of Jean Hanlon’, new information has emerged which was enough to lead […]
PFPO’s stray animals meetings with German MEPs and the Authorities in Crete
PFPO PRESS RELEASE – (repost) Last month MEPs Professor Klaus Buchner, animal activist Stefan Eck and Georgios Chatzimarkakis, who is from Crete, organized a congress […]
Book club in Apokoronas
NEW BOOK CLUB Kindle/ebook recommended Meets Monthly Read an entertaining, interesting book every month. Members take turns to propose a choice of books. Meet, discuss […]
A new novel on wartime Crete by Phillip Duke, a former apokoronas resident
A Cretan village confronts the Nazi juggernaut sweeping across Europe. A village matriarch tries to hold her family together…Her grieving son finds a new life […]
A driver’s licence saga
AN received a letter from a reader about problems with the renewal of a drivers licence. Name and email supplied. ‘Last autumn, the government introduced […]
Giving up … Smoking
Just a few days after the publication of a study in #ekathimerini concluding that 15,000 Greeks a year die from smoking, here is another contribution […]
Police respond quickly to save animals of an ill owner from eviction
Mrs Bobolaki, President of Pan-Hellenic Animal Welfare and Environmental Federation issued the following press statement last Friday. “(Thursday) I was contacted by Kalyves vet Mr […]
How I learnt to live with a dog
I’ve always been a cat person. People who know me were very surprised to see me walking around the village accompanied by a dog on […]
Giving up… DRINKING
John Aitch, a retired international journalist who commutes between a rented flat in Kalyves and his cottage in Scotland, has been giving up things half […]
Record rainfall in Chania in January
High levels of precipitation were recorded in January in almosr every part of Greece. The graph from the national observatory / meteo.gr shows the recorded […]
Region of Crete approves significant works for Apokoronas
Earlier in the week, the Regional Authority of Crete announced it approved Apokoronas plans for the improvement of the Vryses – Georgioupolis road. The work […]
Strong winds disrupt ferries, bring cloud of dust to Crete
Gale force winds in the Aegean, reaching speeds of up to 9 Beaufort, tied up ferries at the ports of Lavrio and Rafina, but also […]
Winter here to stay – for another week …
After the unusually long spell of cold and rain the weather in Crete is not going to improve in a hurry despite a couple of […]
British Ambassador meets Apokoronas residents for Brexit briefing
The British ambassador to Greece, Kate Smith CMG, met with British residents in Apokoronas town hall on Thursday, to discuss their concerns about Brexit and answer questions, following […]