OUR LATEST NEWS:Dear friends, We hope you had a wonderful Christmas. In our latest newsletter we have some good news from Greece, plus the dates of our first departures for 2017. But first we have a message from Key Currency, the foreign exchange brokerage we use for all of our currency transfers. If you are planning to transfer money from GBP to EUR or vice versa, speak to our broker Andy Dyer. He's not pushy, he just provides great service and gets us the best possible rates (much better than the banks, and even better than other brokers). Currency Exchange - Great Rates, Safe and EasyNeed to send money overseas? Key Currency is a British company offering an honest, trusted service on international money transfers. With Key Currency you get great exchange rates, award-winning service and a dedicated dealer who will help you with every step of your transfer. We save you money by taking a smaller margin than the banks. All client money is safeguarded in a segregated account, so you know your money is safe and secure. Choose Key Currency if you’re buying or selling a property abroad, transferring your salary, mortgage or pension abroad or paying international bills. See how we compare... Nomad Christmas Delivery A SuccessDecember has been a tumultuous month for Greece, with extended strike action affecting nearly every aspect of life in Greece. The week-long strikes affected Nomad too of course, interrupting our movements between Greece and the UK, and seriously threatening our promise to deliver to all of our wonderful customers before Christmas! Our final departure of the year (which we call the "Christmas Truck") had a record number of customers' goods this time, with almost 120 different families depending on us to deliver to Greece and the island of Crete in particular, before Christmas, not to mention several customers who we were moving to and from Greece with all of their worldly goods! We had planned for months for this, only to have our plans scuppered as our truck was stuck for more than a week, unable to move due to the strike! Thankfully some quick thinking and hard work by Danny, Rob and the UK team led to a solution being found, with a complex logistical ballet enabling a record turn-around while still completing all of our required collections and deliveries. The truck arrived in Crete on 20th December in time for our Crete Express customers to collect their Christmas presents, groceries and shopping before the Christmas holidays. Our customers in Athens, Patra and Italy were also extremely relieved. Special thanks to David, our International Driver, to Jon & Sheila (and Michael their son) for their amazing efforts with the Crete Express, and of course to the wonderful Mark, Tracy, Curtis, Takis, Steve, Charlie and Ian for helping this and all of our removals throughout the year to be a success. Fantastic Result for Almyrida Christmas FayreWe're very pleased to announce that the Alymyrida Winter Fayre (one of the charities we support in Greece), was an amazing success this year, raising €12,100 for charities in Crete, beating the previous record by almost 50%. We'll have more details on this in a future newsletter. Happy New Year 2017Best wishes for a wonderful new year in 2017. We're looking forward to another fantastic year (hopefully a slightly less dramatic one than 2016!) We've already set our departure dates for the first vehicles of the year: we're departing from Greece to the UK at the end of the first week of January, and our first departure from the UK to Greece will be on 22nd January 2017. With warm regards for a safe and happy holiday season from the team at Nomad International.
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