Mums holiday

My Mum has been here for a week which was nice and Finlay and I got to be tourists :-0

We went up the accropolis in Lindos on a donkey and explored the little white streets, we visited a couple of beaches and sunbathed. We went to the valley of the butterflies and a long morning in Rhodes medival town

There was also a medival night on the sunday of Mums birthday in Lindos so had some dinner out then watched the singing on the square for a bit

Lovely week 

Bits and bobs

The saga so far....

Furniture, i finally got a phone call yesterday (Thursday) to tell me that my paper work had been received (I had since gone through the procedure again and this time couried it to them!!!) that it had cleared customs and was ready to come to us! yeahhhhh, however.... I had to pay an additional 400euro for storage in Athens for the week that it has spent sat there waiting for my paperwork! So because my next day, recorded delivery letter took a week to get there, we have to pay 400euro for storage, this caused another argument but she said that it was port fee's and that there was nothing to be done about it!! So i'm not holding my breath but it should be here today or tomorrow but no phone call yet!!

OTE (telephone and Internet) it turned out on Tuesday that OTE had cancelled our order although no one knows why! so I had to go into Rhodes with a guy from ECS to try and rescue the situation and get it re-ordered! they saved it on the system and has been ordered and sent through to the engineers. We now sit and wait yet again to see when they phone us to come out

Pool licence - we are now into the process of our pool licence, we have been to the police station for a million more stamps on bits of paper and transferred some money, we even have a receipt!

Electricity - still no further forward

Tax - still no further forward

water meter - still no further forward

however it seems to be a good week so far!!!

Loops now sending me mad!

So following on from last blog about customs! I visited the ploice this morning who told me that they couldnt sign the form because it had english on it! I need a stamp from the embassy! so 4 hours later I have been to KEP (No idea) office got it signed (Icheated by editing document on word to remove Greek) and faxed it, they then phoned to say they also needed it posting, I lost it, shouted a lot and hung up! I have now posted it though so we shall wait and see.................

telephones

We have now been waiting 7 weeks for our connection which should take a week! every day they say they are coming and they dont! last week we had a break through and they gave us a telephone number but then they went on strike and they still havent been!
whenever you chase them they feed you a load of rubbish about having tried to phone you although your phone hasnt rung once!!

Hoops, Loops and Stamps!!!

The Greeks love their stamps and they love making things as complicated as possible! i think it must keep people in work!
I eventually got a phone call from the shipping comany the other day saying that our container was due to arrive in Athens on saturday. They explained that they had sent me an email with an attachement and instructions so up to the bakery I went. I have to fax them a copy of my passport, my tax number and print off a copy of a form, fill it in witnessed by police and fax them that! the first 2 are done now! karen let me use her printer so I have document. Thursday 9am, 1pm and 4:30pm, Friday 8am and 5pm, this morning (monay) 805am I went to the police station in Lindos to try and get the form witnessed and I havent found a police man or the place even open!! what is that all about!
I need a police stamp on my paperwork for the customs clearence and our belongers will go no further until I have this, the Greeks love their paperwork and we have no furniture...still!
There is always tomorrow and a different police station!