General life

So we have been here 6 months now so pretty much life has become normal so to speak.

I have a job working for an English company www.nwix.net twice a week doing remote sales work using a VoIP phone and as im part of the network if I rang you I would actually come up as being in Manchester! I worked with Nick (CEO) about 6 years ago when nwix first started so when I asked him if he new of anything he offered me a job so that worked out very well as I do the 2 days that Finlay is in nursery. I also train a couple of times a week so am keeping my hand in with the PT and hopefully will do more of it now that winter is here.

Paul has almost finished work as the season is almost over. He has to sit his exams and a few more skills to be done but after a summer of hard work on the beach and almost 50 additional dives he is nearly a dive master. So he will amuse himself by building shed, fencing etc through the winter and fit in some relaxing :-)

The weather has changed this week big time, it is cool at night now, if you have a sunny day you could still sit out but you would wear a jumper now and we have a blanket on the bed!! Had a load of rain yesterday so was strange having our first sunday of none beach time! It is still high twenties though during the day and nov is meant to be lovely so we will wait and see.

Finlay seems to be having fun at nursery and understands Greek perfectly and is starting to speak more of it, he knows lots of words to say when he is fighting with them anyway!

So all in all, we are well and truely settled in down and looking forward to the change of season and seeing what it brings.

Previous problems all fixed

Huge delay in updating the blog as I found that if we were not having problems, I wasn’t writing anything and since we have settled in no one would want to read about normal daily life! However I thought that it is time to give an update on previous problems which I am pleased to say, are no longer J

Electricity – after 3 weeks of no electric in August (good in terms of at least you could bbq everything and were certainly warm enough, bad in terms of no aircon as it was more than warm enough and having to go to the supermarket all the time to get ice to keep the milk cool!!!) we eventually got a meter after a couple of trips to Rhodes meeting lawyers, so we are now connected in totality.

Water meter – this was actually a short process in the end, after paying the man at the town hall and not adding to the stamp collection (couldn’t believe it!!!) and only one follow up trip to the town hall to see if they still remembered us, the plumber turned up next door to connect their meter so Paul cornered him and managed to get ours done.

This only left us with one other thing to really do and that was get the Greek plates for the car which we did all of the paperwork for in England. Paul went along to the KTEO (their MOT place) today and after being sent on to customs he was told that he isn’t aloud to import his car as it is a light goods vehicle (Navara!!!) so after a chat about it and lots of ranting and paper work reading, they are going to phone Athens and come back to us in the next week to see if we can import it or not!! So fingers crossed or it will be drive back to the UK and sell it!!

So that’s a problems fixed and updated page and I’ll write another bit with the daily stuff!