so many fingers in the pie!
Nov. 16th, 2021 09:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ruthct21as Mick has posted, we awoke this morning to weather more like Yorkshire than the Mani Paradise. I swear the wind was wuthering around the house, bronte-fashion, during the night. The sea was very grey and wild , waves crashing right up the beach. One brave person (not Mick!) was in the sea for a short while but it didn't last. The rain slackened off by midday and a bit of sun peeped out. We had a pleasantly scenic drive to the nearby village of Kardomilli to meet our lawyer, a plump lady of middle years who seems to be terrifyingly well-informed about the new Greek regime for buying property here and getting the reward of the right to live here.
Everything is categorised, down to the exact services an assortment of professionals need to provide and what they will cost (always a percentage of the purchase-cost of the house.) She has undertaken to provide us with a list of the documents we will need (most of them we can access readily from here but one or two will have to wait till we return to the UK). She, or the estate agent, can provide solid recommendations for which engineer etc to go to (and who to avoid!) There is a possibility that we will have to come back in the New Year to sign various important documents but if all goes smoothly we should be able to move here by the summer.
Mick roasted some chicken for dinner this evening after we discovered that all the restaurants were closed. This has been a national day of restaurants and cafes in Greece closing in protest against the new covid rules which are costing some of them a lot of money and may deter some people from eating out. As I think I have posted earlier, nobody here seems to be upset by the new rules but we have no way of telling what opinion may be like elsewhere.
All being well, we will travel home in 2 weeks and get stuck into disposing of yet more of our stuff and working out how to transport the things we do want to take with us. We spent a bit of time looking at the Greek IKEA catalogue, much of which looks cheaper than the UK equivalent. The people who's house we wish to buy have offered us the chance to come round and measure up the rooms, and we will also take a good look at the size and type of furniture they have, which will help us to decide what we will need to buy.
Very glad to hear that Rachel is no longer at risk of the plague. We have to arrange for covid-tests a day or two after we return home: Mick was chasing that today. I tried to book an appointment for my booster jab but th surgery was not keen to make a booking before we are back in the uk.
Everything is categorised, down to the exact services an assortment of professionals need to provide and what they will cost (always a percentage of the purchase-cost of the house.) She has undertaken to provide us with a list of the documents we will need (most of them we can access readily from here but one or two will have to wait till we return to the UK). She, or the estate agent, can provide solid recommendations for which engineer etc to go to (and who to avoid!) There is a possibility that we will have to come back in the New Year to sign various important documents but if all goes smoothly we should be able to move here by the summer.
Mick roasted some chicken for dinner this evening after we discovered that all the restaurants were closed. This has been a national day of restaurants and cafes in Greece closing in protest against the new covid rules which are costing some of them a lot of money and may deter some people from eating out. As I think I have posted earlier, nobody here seems to be upset by the new rules but we have no way of telling what opinion may be like elsewhere.
All being well, we will travel home in 2 weeks and get stuck into disposing of yet more of our stuff and working out how to transport the things we do want to take with us. We spent a bit of time looking at the Greek IKEA catalogue, much of which looks cheaper than the UK equivalent. The people who's house we wish to buy have offered us the chance to come round and measure up the rooms, and we will also take a good look at the size and type of furniture they have, which will help us to decide what we will need to buy.
Very glad to hear that Rachel is no longer at risk of the plague. We have to arrange for covid-tests a day or two after we return home: Mick was chasing that today. I tried to book an appointment for my booster jab but th surgery was not keen to make a booking before we are back in the uk.
