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14th August 2005
Additional suggested
places to eat added. Check out the list HERE.
1st
September 2004
Additional suggested places to eat added. Check
out the list HERE.
Minor
changes made to property pages.
21st
February 2004
Information regarding the Durrell School of Corfu
added plus minor tinkering!
29th April
2003
Images of Easter Saturday parades and 'pot-throwing' in Corfu
Town on 26th April 2003 added.
14th April
2003
Short article with images added following snowfall on 8th April
2003. Access is gained by first clicking on 'Weather' menu option and then selecting
'Snow!'.
12th April
2003
New image library uploaded showing scenes of Corfu Town Carnival
on 9th March 2003.
New image library uploaded showing scenes of Paxos.
Details of a suggested one-day excursion to Paxos from Corfu added under 'Places to visit.
New image library uploaded showing scenes of Kefalonia.
Details of a suggested excursion to Kefalonia from Corfu added under 'Places to visit.
Update to 'HOWTO No. 4 - Our Guide To Obtaining A Tax Number In Corfu And Trying To Keep On The Right Side Of The Greek Tax Authority!' This now includes advice on transferring money electronically from the UK to Greece and also advice about obtaining tax numbers for both parties where consideration is being given to purchasing property in 'joint names'.
11th April 2003
Update
to HOWTO No. 5 and mini FAQ relating to obtaining of residence permits
by EU citizens who are not employed in Greece.
18th March 2003
Mini
FAQ added covering in brief, many of the questions that we are regularly
asked.
Guest contributor Carol Stroud has provided an alternative viewpoint on moving to Corfu and has also provided details of the overland route that she and her husband Peter took when they moved to Corfu in October 2002. Of particular interest will be details of the costs incurred.
13th March 2003
Minor
updates to links page.
10th February 2003
Minor
updates to links page and addition of link to Mike Mason's Greek Island Postcards
site.
3rd January 2003
Updated
links page to include Ted Wooler's Corfu walking and Corfu fishing pages
29th December 2002
Updated
links page to include Dennis Cakebread's Ag. Georgis website.
21st November 2002
Page
monitoring facility added. See above!
Improved search engine added here
30th September 2002
Image
library of Koukouli in Zagoria added.
Image library of Metsovo
added.
29th September 2002
Previous visitors to our site when it was to be found at www.thecorfiot.org.ukwill
recall that we have made several trips to the mainland of Greece, at easter
time. We have now started to transfer some of the images from that site.
The first, are image libraries of the archaelogical site at Dodoni and the city of Ioannina.
27th September 2002
After a longer than anticipated break due to the arrival of visitors,
an image library of animals, insects and reptiles has been added.
14th September 2002
Image library showing images taken on the Messonghi - Boukari Road
in the South of the island added.
13th September 2002
Temperature calculater added to 'Weather' page to provide a means of
convertion
to scales that may be more familiar to the user.
Image libraries
for Agios Stefanos (West) added.
Image of a tornado / waterspout
added to the 'Atmospherics' image library.
7th September 2002
Image Library showing images of natural light and atmospheric effects
added
Image library for Greek Easter on Corfu added.
Image Library for
Greek Easter with family and friends added.
31st August 2002
A personal rant about the euro and its effect on tourism added to the
FAQs!
Image library for Gialiskari added.
Image library for Sidari added.
30th August 2002
Menuing system for Image library modified by the addition of an A -Z
index
to allow easier access for the user as the number of categories increases.
Image library for Old Perithia added.
Image library for 'Shell Fish' added.
Image library for Vidos Island added.
27th August 2002
Image library for Corfu Town added.
Image library for Kouloura
added.
Image library for Lazaretto Island added.
Image library for Liapades
added.
Image library for Mount Pantokrator and monastery added.
Image library of a typical 'Greek Night' added.
26th August 2002
Issues resolved whereby Atomz Search engine stubbornly refused to index
latest pages. It is now overly efficient and will ultimately require fine tuning!
Link to obtain Comic Sans MS font updated on home page as Micro$oft have removed
it!
25th August 2002
Image libraries for Ag Markos Panigieri - 1999 added. (Only of interest
to those friends that were there!)
Image libraries for Agios Stefanos
(East) added.
Image libraries for Avlaki added.
24th August 2002
Went live with subset of site under new domain. Still lots to do. Old
site remains active without redirect. Still using old guestbook!
Search
facility updated and checked.
23rd August 2002
Easter date calculator added. Permission to use javascript kindly
provided by GMArts
Recommended eating and drinking places updated
Greek name days and dates of Greek public holidays added
6th July 2002
Commenced redesign of site and introduction of new style image library.
The basic package used to generate the image gallery is a freeware package
called WebThumbs Version 2.25 and we have manually tweaked
the final output. WebThumb is written by Gael Schwarz and is highly recommended. It
is available for download from
http://mypage.bluewin.ch/gael
The Corfiot's guide to Obtaining
a Greek Residence Permit added. Corfu specific but adaptable to elsewhere in
Greece.
4th July
2002
Home page
updated.
The Corfiot's guide to moving to Corfu from the UK added.
The Corfiots guide to renting property in Corfu added.
The Corfiot's guide
to importing a car into Corfu added.
The Corfiot's guide to Obtaining a
Greek Tax Number & Attempting To Keep The Authorities Happy added.
Links
updated.
15 August 2000
Interactive
map added courtesy of corfunet.com. N.B. The map is not updateable by us, so
please don't complain if you find inaccuracies!
12
August 2000
New javascript menuing
system added to replace original. This should prove more flexible and prove
an aid to navigation. Unfortunately, we have had to remove the calender for
the time being.
10 August 2000
Guest
Book added. PLEASE sign it and let us know what you think. If you have a website,
leave your URL so that we can return the compliment.
8
August 2000
Calender and currency convertor added.
6
August 2000
New search facility for
this site added. It will search on words, parts of words and phrases. It also
has "Sounds - like" capabilities. Click here
to try it out.
30 July 2000
At
long last, we have got round to updating the site! As of today, the site
boasts a new enlarged Image Library. As always, the images may be used for any
non-commercial purpose, but they remain © Bob Giles 1999,2000, 2001,2002. All
Rights Reserved
Weather: You may now check out the weather anywhere in the world.
Have Fun.