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Paying an Electric bill for a witch: Greece does not work anymore & never worked

By Tom Winnifrith | Tuesday 7 July 2015

 

It came as rather a shock earlier this year: I owed the electricity company 975 Euro for the Greek hovel she owns in the Mani region. In May the Mrs and I headed into Kalamata with our friend George the architect and established that in fact we owed 20 Euro. The former owner of the hovel, a witch called Athena, had not paid for three years and owed 955 Euro.

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