Walks, Photos, Paperwork
Some more photos from afternoon walks today and my first Christmas gift of the year – what? Well, it looks like Sotiris still has some Christmas chocolates left over from last season, still well within date. I think that was the first chocolate I’ve had for a long time. Well, since that chocolate ice cream I had last week, at any rate.
The season shows no great signs of slowing down, not yet. There are still boats coming in each day, sometimes up to seven, and plenty of yachts and cruisers in the harbour. Things are a tad quieter now that the Italian visitors have mainly gone, August being a popular time for southern European visitors. At this time of year it tends to be northern Europeans and British who are, I guess, soon to be no longer European. Great shame that, and don’t get me started.
But, on that note… (I got started), I’m hearing rumours of what us non-Greek, non-European residents might need in order to be able to stay in the country after next March if that disaster happens, and there’s still time for it to not happen or at last to happen with less impact. Although I’ve still not seen anything official from the government, so far, I have gathered together: my passport (proof of ID), my residency permit from 2008 which replaced the original from 2003, proof of my private health insurance to show I’m not a burden on the state, my proof of income – which will formally kick in after November, I hope, and my tax records (or part thereof) which also date back to 2003, plus my CP contract to my European/Irish spouse and various other bits of information that prove I’ve been living here, in the tax system and for a while the health system for the last 16 years. If that lot doesn’t go through whatever process is devised to keep me here, I don’t know what will. Anyway… not what I intended to write, so here are another two photos from Tuesday.
