PYLA Crossing with UK Plates?

KickingK


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Message Posted:
23/04/2010 22:30

Looking to cross the border to attend a wedding in the South. Can anyone advise if it is possible to purchase insurance at the Pyla crossing?



Also car has UK plates, is this ok if you take all necessary paperwork/documents with you??



Any advice would be much appreciated.

yorgozlu



Joined: 16/06/2009
Posts: 4437

Message Posted:
23/04/2010 23:04

Do you have a green card?If so ,you wont need nothing other then your passaport.If not.it'll be normal procedure just to get a months insurance.And yes,it is possible to get insurance at all crossings other then the foot crossing in Nicosia.

So,don't panic,jump in your car ,get there and enjoy yourself.Often they don't bother with anything else once you showed them your Brittish passaport.

KickingK


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Posts: 90

Message Posted:
23/04/2010 23:55

Yorgozlu - Thanks for info. Don't have a green card, so will make sure I have all paperwork and passports and just purchase the insurance at border.



Thank you

Hilltop



Joined: 28/04/2008
Posts: 636

Message Posted:
24/04/2010 05:57

You won't be able to buy insurance at Pyla unless you have a Tax/MOT paper from Metahan.

yorgozlu



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Message Posted:
24/04/2010 06:21

Valid UK road tax does wonders.

newscoop


Joined: 23/12/2007
Posts: 2197

Message Posted:
24/04/2010 07:00

Being ever so slightly pedantic



The "Border" is at Beyermudu.

Groucho



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Message Posted:
24/04/2010 07:53

Yeah Newcoop I've always been puzzled by this one... why is it called the Pyla crossing?

Hilltop



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Posts: 636

Message Posted:
24/04/2010 08:08

Pyla is easier to spell of course!

yorgozlu



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Message Posted:
24/04/2010 08:21

Perhaps,because you cross over to Pyla.

mmmmmm



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Message Posted:
24/04/2010 10:07

re 5

newscoop



Being technically even more pedantic.. the 'border' is the Med Sea ;) !



If taking a UK reg'd car, *I* would only cross at Sovereign Base check points - they KNOW what you need .. Current UK Tax , UK MOT, Green card based on UK insurance, Vehicle Registration Doc- if you aren't the registered keeper - permission to drive the car and a current UK driver's licence.



IF the UK Tax / MOT / UK insurance have expired, then you are driving illegally - unless you have registered the car in a third country and awaiting papers.

mmmmmm



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Message Posted:
24/04/2010 10:10

BTW in case you want to cross and get back the Greek name for the 'Pyla' crossing is Pergamos /Πέργαμος

newscoop


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Posts: 2197

Message Posted:
24/04/2010 10:35

6m;



Where have you been lately?



it's been way too quiet without your own style of pedantry.



By the way, not being pedantic but Pergamos is actally Beyermudu rather than Pyla.

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
24/04/2010 11:09

We've never been asked to show insurance docs at Pyla... they seem more interested in if we've got shed loads of fags... which we don't have.

newscoop


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Posts: 2197

Message Posted:
24/04/2010 11:55

The cigs thing is the SBA plod at BEYERMUDU/PERGAMOS

malsancak


Joined: 23/08/2009
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Message Posted:
24/04/2010 14:45

to be even more pendantic, the border are probably 22km into the Mediterranean.

"Nations subscribing to the Law of the Sea observe a territorial limit of 12 nautical mi (22 km) from shore. Territorial rights include the airspace above those waters and the seabed below them."

newscoop


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Posts: 2197

Message Posted:
24/04/2010 16:58

ok Mal;



You win the pedants prize!

Hilltop



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Message Posted:
24/04/2010 17:44

Or he would do if he could spell it!

malsancak


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Message Posted:
24/04/2010 20:18

i-t, do I get the prize now?

Groucho



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Message Posted:
24/04/2010 20:45

Newscoop,



It's Beyarmudu not 'Beyermudi' so I nominate me as pedant of the week!

basheer



Joined: 22/12/2008
Posts: 949

Message Posted:
24/04/2010 21:25

what's a green card

KickingK


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Posts: 90

Message Posted:
24/04/2010 22:00

Hilltop - You won't be able to buy insurance at Pyla unless you have a Tax/MOT paper from Metahan.



The vehicle has been taxed and insured in the TRNC for the past 3 yrs (due to have TRNC plates when we next tax it) does this mean we still need to go to Metahan before we can cross at Pyla/Beyarmudu!?



It's all very complicated!

yorgozlu



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Posts: 4437

Message Posted:
24/04/2010 22:25

msg 21;

basheer;

If you are still thinking of driving your car to Cyprus,make sure you get one of those.It'll save you alot of hussle and money on the way here.And,while here you wont need to buy insurance every time you want to go to south either.Though,it is not valid in TRNC.

newscoop


Joined: 23/12/2007
Posts: 2197

Message Posted:
24/04/2010 23:03

Groucho;



Good point on Bey(A) rmudu



Strangely,Star Kibris (Turkish edition) uses two e's







Who said BEYERMUD(I)?

Hilltop



Joined: 28/04/2008
Posts: 636

Message Posted:
25/04/2010 05:28

KK.

Not got much experience of having a UK registered vehicle on the Island for 3 years, but presumably it will not have UK tax or MOT?



In my opinion you will have to go to Metahan just to collect the bit of paper (not sure how they will view the length of time it has been on the island though).

Groucho



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Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
25/04/2010 07:41

Newscoop,



That Star Kibris (Turkish edition) gets it wrong surprises nobody... that I do, even less I guess!



Even though others would have you believe otherwise, I'm not quite anal enough to do it purely to prove you wrong but I drove through there yesterday getting my daughter back to the UK (She'd been delayed a week by the volcanic ash fiasco) and saw the spelling first hand... My incorrect attribution of 'Beyermudi' to you was merely a typo.. but thanks for pointing it out... I think....

yorgozlu



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Posts: 4437

Message Posted:
25/04/2010 10:04

Groucho/Newscoop;



Come on guys,I thought you 2 were better then that.

newscoop


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Posts: 2197

Message Posted:
25/04/2010 10:17

All in good fun Yorgozlu



As for Groucho getting anal



Let's not go there!

mmmmmm



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Message Posted:
25/04/2010 15:42

Hi Newscoop



re 12 .. nice to know you missed me !



Seriously, I know Pergamos /Πέργαμος is the Greek version of Beyarmudu / Beyermudi (sp?) ... that's why I sad 'Pyla' Crossing..... ;)