How much would you pay for a Greek Island?

[Katz]

Some German MP's have suggested that Greece should sell it's asset to deal with it debt problem.

So is selling off its uninhabited island realistic?

greece bankrupt

Xenia will know....

I have £3.57 in my purse atm. But would happily part with it in exchange for a Greek island.

Well, Long Island in Poole Harbour has just been sold for £3 million..........

Lol portofino, she surely will!!

it's probably not a bad idea. they need the dosh badly.

Sell each island on 50 year lease with a tax free status. They would raise £1 billion for each one.

Actually ABD, I had a look online and you can get a niceish small one for around a million Euros. Though the one I want (in the Ionian, 1,000 acres, three natural harbours) costs 14 million. So my £3.57 won't go very far. Plus there's the cost of actually building on it.

Why don't we all club together and have a Mumsnet island?
It would be great - you would be allowed to breastfeed wherever you want and the bar would be open 24 hours.

we could light real torches and have real pitchforks

I'm holding the conch.

yes my fantasy of a Mumsnet island utopia only lasted about a minute.
Now I'm imagining a wicker-man style lynching after a row over P&T parking and the bfers taking over the north end of the island and the ffers the south.

Can I be in charge of checking out the snorkling please?

Depends on how may gorgeous single Greek hunks are on it

Mind you it'd probably be cradle snatching at my age but I did spend a couple of years living in Greece half a lifetime ago....goes off into a soppy dream.....

Bobs, have you been overdosing on the Mama Mia dvd?

Not sure the Greeks would be too keen an MN island. The last time they had dealings with an all female society it really didn't go at all well.

"Herodotus reports that after the Greek victory at Themiscyra, the Greeks took three ships full of captured Amazons back towards Athens, but the Amazons overpowered the Greeks and (not knowing navigation) drifted ashore in Scythian territory. Finding some wild horses inland, they began riding off in search of loot and found themselves battling the Scythians, who were amazed to find afterwards that the Amazons had been women. The Scythians then courted the Amazons, to produce children by such amazing women. (As fellow hunters and plunderers the Scythians were a good match for the Amazons.) This interbreeding succeeded, but the Amazons refused to settle down (relatively speaking) with the Scythians, where women stay at home in their wagons occupied with feminine tasks (Herodotus). Instead they invited their new husbands to go off with them to a new place, and that is how the Sauromatian people are supposed to have originated. For Herodotus, this account explained why Sauromatian women go riding to the hunt on horseback sometimes with, sometimes without their menfolk, taking part in war, and wearing the same sort of clothes as men and why they have a marriage law which forbids a girl to marry until she has killed an enemy in battle.

I think we should definitely have a law which forbids a girl to marry until she has killed an enemy in battle.

there was a good joke in the paper today about Germans, Greek islands and sunbeds but i've forgotten it.

No - not the Mama Mia DVD - too unrealistic - that other one with Tom Conti where the "older" woman runs away from her boring DH and rainy England to sunny sunny Greece and the gorgeous hunk!!! mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Shirley Valentin!

It's confidential what i paid for mine but cheaper than it would have been in Greece and more isolated, more Robinson Crusoe-ish.