27/05/15

[Maik]

Tenders for sunbeds, etc, on beaches opens 03 June. Can't figure why it's not done before the season starts.

[Maik]

UK plan ‘could leave Scotland worse off than Greece’

http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/uk-plan-could-leave-scotland-worse-off-than-greece-1-3783139

[APB]

Tenders for sunbeds, etc, on beaches opens 03 June. Can't figure why it's not done before the season starts.

Interesting ! On Skala beach, Sunrise, Green Paradise, Metaxa Bar and most of the hotels on the beach road appear to have assumed they have already submitted the highest bid! Can't imagine anyone bidding on anyone else's patch though...

 

[Maik]

Tenders usually open around this time and the hotels along the beach generally have theirs out for around the start of the season, maybe they have some agreement with the municipality. A guy in Katelios got out-bid (according to him) several years ago, he reckons the winner bid far more than he was willing to shell out for another season.

[Maik]

Greece will be looking with interest Wednesday at the news emerging from Brussels, where the European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship is expected to announce a plan to relocate about 40,000 refugees from Italy and Greece.

It is thought that 24,000 refugees from Italy and 16,000 from Greece will be relocated within the EU.

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_26/05/2015_550410

Only new refugees to benefit from EU quotas in migrant crisis: draft

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/26/us-europe-migrants-eu-idUSKBN0OB1ZG20150526

[Maik]

Fifa corruption inquiries: Officials arrested in Zurich

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32895048

[Maik]

*Some* prices for beach rental, not sure if these are the minimum asked or 'in the region of':

Katelios, sunbeds & brollies, 500 sq.m.: 6,000€
Koroni, sunbeds & brollies, 490 sq.m.: 1,500€
Lourdas, sunbeds and brollies, 300m stretch: 4,800€
Mounda, sunbeds & brollies, 500 sq.m.: 3,000€
Skala, sunbeds and brollies, 200 sq.m. by Nautilus taverna: 1,500€
Skala, sunbeds & brollies, 500 sq.m.: 5,000€
Poros plateia beach, sunbeds and brollies, 250 sq.m.: 1,000€

[kefman]

thanks for the info on the beach rentals Maik. Always wondered how it was done. Glad to see it recognises the dire situation in Poros with it lucky to be having a viable 6 week season.

[Aristarches]

UK plan ‘could leave Scotland worse off than Greece’

http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/uk-plan-could-leave-scotland-worse-off-than-greece-1-3783139

Oh dear, what a shame.  Never mind.

[Aristarches]

Greece will be looking with interest Wednesday at the news emerging from Brussels, where the European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship is expected to announce a plan to relocate about 40,000 refugees from Italy and Greece.

It is thought that 24,000 refugees from Italy and 16,000 from Greece will be relocated within the EU.

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_26/05/2015_550410

Only new refugees to benefit from EU quotas in migrant crisis: draft

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/26/us-europe-migrants-eu-idUSKBN0OB1ZG20150526

These people are economic immigrants trying to circumvent immigration laws.  Allow one chink in the wall and the ensuing flood will batter down that wall and leave us awash with mendicant people whose only words will be "Where is the nearest hand out".  In Brum there was a  lorry full of "refugees" stopped on the M6.  None of them could speak English but had been provided with a piece of paper which had the legend "Please tell me where is the nearest office of benefit".

Also, isn't it typical of these people that they arrive and leave all their rubbish on the beach?  Kos will now be full of beggars tugging at shirt sleeves for baksheesh.  Send them all back in the same leaky boats they came in.

[Maik]

Various pics of these arrivals in the news, some showing them taking selfies on their smartphones upon landing. They appear reasonably well dressed. So these could be reasonably well educated, middle class people fleeing from religious or ethnic persecution and, in their situation, getting the hell out p.d.q. might be a smart move... it's pretty much what Ioanis Fokas' grandfather did when the Ottomans captured Konstantinopolis and, in years to come, maybe some of these people will become leading figures in British industry / commerce (if they get to the UK).

On the other hand, (decent) jobs in the UK are few and far between, the transport and welfare systems are creaking, house and rental prices are crazy and new builds will probably be on precious green-field sites.

 

[Aristarches]

Various pics of these arrivals in the news, some showing them taking selfies on their smartphones upon landing. They appear reasonably well dressed. So these could be reasonably well educated, middle class people fleeing from religious or ethnic persecution and, in their situation, getting the hell out p.d.q. might be a smart move... it's pretty much what Ioanis Fokas' grandfather did when the Ottomans captured Konstantinopolis and, in years to come, maybe some of these people will become leading figures in British industry / commerce (if they get to the UK).

On the other hand, (decent) jobs in the UK are few and far between, the transport and welfare systems are creaking, house and rental prices are crazy and new builds will probably be on precious green-field sites.

 

Do you really believe that left wing gibberish, Maik?  I do so hope you are being ironic.

[Maik]

Do you really believe that left wing gibberish, Maik?

I believe (decent) jobs in the UK are few and far between, the transport and welfare systems are creaking, house and rental prices are crazy and new builds will probably be on precious green-field sites. Wasn't aware it was left wing gibberish!

I can also believe that, in years to come, the media will be falling over itself to hero worship an immigrant who arrived penniless on Kos in 2015 and has become one of Britain's newest self-made multi-millionaires.

Come to think of it, I believe Isis and the like is evil and I understand why people want to flee despotic, barbaric regimes. 

I don't believe we should lump all migrants together and tar them all as thieving scroungers.

Has that blown my chances of replacing Mr Farage as head of Ukip?