Duty Free allowance

[Sarah]

See you there jimbo - we are at the Nafsika from the 21st for 2 weeks!

[Jimbo]

Excellent! I'm the distinguished (or possibly extinguished) gent with the young blonde!

[Sarah]

Haha i will look out for you!  I have got the advantage as you have a profile pic.
I am blonde too but not a young blonde!

[Gavlah1973]

Dont ask to see Jimbos wristband....Natasha will get jealous!!

I've heard Big Boris is over there for the final of the Greece v Albania cucumber growing tournament so beware!

[dibully]

Wow Jim that's great will be wonderful for you both to have your Birthdays away sure Spiros and the wonderful staff will look after you where better to spend your Birthday

[loftyscot]

Jimbo, they might turn up in the Naffy......and surprise u there instead.

[Waspman]

Tony - I wish you hadn't put all that multiple holidays stuff in our minds! Very naughty.

Just felt forced to go back to Nafsika for 25 nights, late September - 

Looks like you two will be the only ones there, at least for the last couple of weeks!!

[Jimbo]

If that's true at least we'll be guaranteed to win the Nafiska Pub Quiz!

It was still quite busy that time last year. Nice for walking :-)

[Waspman]

If that's true at least we'll be guaranteed to win the Nafiska Pub Quiz!

It was still quite busy that time last year. Nice for walking :-)

Not this year, so I hear from Chris, he finishes in early October.

And I suspect Speros will win the quiz, he writes the questions!

[Soulie]

Just to let you know we didnt have any trouble bringing duty free ciggies back.  Bought 40 cartons through (yes all for us but wont have to buy any here for quite a few months) without any trouble at all.

I did print off the bit from internet which states you can bring unlimited back as long as for personal use as you suggested on here, so thanks for advice.

Cheryl

[tonyco1]

Did you have an extra case?

[Jimbo]

I can get at least 8 cartons in my flight bag alone!

[Soulie]

Did you have an extra case?

No didnt Tony.  Had 10 cartons in hand luggage (holdall which didnt have much in when we went) and 10 in my suitcase and same for OH.  Dont ram the suitcases full so never a problem. 

[tonyco1]

Good idea for you smokers, I am not crazy about smoking, but I don't like to see silly taxes to try to force people to give up, when it's personal choice.
You wouldn't mind so much if the tax money wasn't then wasted!!
Good luck to you all!

[Jimbo]

I wouldn't mind if they didn't tell lies or omit certain "facts." For example, Norman Lamb - Health Minister who claims to have given up smoking a week ago! - says smoking-related illness (which is anything from a broken leg to a broken heart if you smoke) costs the NHS £2.7 billion per year. He fails to mention that UK revenue from tobacco tax and duty was £11.1 billion in 2011.

I'm not supporting smoking. I'm an addict. I hope young people will not start to smoke. But - if the government invested some of the vast tax money it receives from smokers into R&D on things like better electronic cigarettes (because, honestly, they just don't feel right currently) instead of waging a war against something that is legal, then perhaps we could see a way forward.

It may be hard for non-smokers to understand, but I hope some will see that there is a massive hypocrisy in taking vast amounts of tax whilst also condemning the activity. A real smoke-free future has to be an honest one. Taxes will have to rise to compensate for the loss of revenue. All happy with that?