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Hi any one know if it is ok to detect in Greece (Zante) going in three weeks

Only if you like Greek prison food ;D ;D ;D No I'm afraid it's a total no no in Greece :(

Thanks for that , but it can't be as bad as the misses food ;D

Have you seen the life of Brian when they were on the cross, well they were detecting in Grease by all accounts :o :'(

lol always look on the bright side of life lol.
 not going to greece this year then  :D

Love it  :D :D :D :D

Made me chuckle!

It's hard work detecting in that heat........easier to lay on a sunbed!  ;D

the only way is to wear a Burkha and swing it underneath

A mankini is the deal, no one will ever want to get close enough to arrest someone detecting in dayglo orange.  ::)

we should have a list of countries on here where u can and cant detect hmmmm

Well that's an easy one UK, USA, Australia and parts of New Zealand are a YES



Everywhere else NO :'(

I've also seen them detecting in Iraq and Afghanistan. but I think
you have to be in the army to do it ;D

not france,spain,cyprus ?

No none of those.....well you'd be OK as beaches aren't too bad. Your dream spots Mike would be the west coast of Ireland on the surf beaches, loads of bling there.

In Mauritius (on the beaches) they encourage it!!!!  ;D

I would think that in other Indian holiday destinations (like Goa) you'd be okay, too.

Probably wouldn't be any problems in the Seychelles!  ;D ;D ;D

France is Ok (article in TH mag last years ) , and Italians do detect in spite of it being illegal ,,and good finds are made, they  just keep out of sight .

France certainly isn't OK, I lived there for 8 years and got warned twice even with the landowners permission and not near any historic site. Beaches you can get away with but try it on a crowded beach and you might find yourself losing your machine ;)

Andaluscia Southern Spain is a no no anywhere. Rest of Spain is ok as long as you are away from historic sites. But as always keep a low profile and don't take your best most expensive detector just in case.

low profile is my mid name lol

the French have more detecting mags than we do so theres something going on geoff,and regardez les XP brands from FRance.there must be a market if XP is a top brand

Yes they have some great mags and yes it does go on but that doesn't mean it's legal or that people aren't getting prosecuted on a regular basis. It's not so much detecting but the finding of ANYTHING old that's illegal so unless you have an "age filter" on your machine then you can get in to trouble.
A few years ago we had a representative of the French pro detecting lobby join DW explaining their plight.
http://www.detectingwales.com/index.php?topic=1008.0 (http://www.detectingwales.com/index.php?topic=1008.0)
XP are in France but that means nothing as Minelab are in Ireland and there you could be arrested for detecting in your own garden.

same as in Italy then . banned but it goes on day and night

I thought about detecting in Spain when i was there on holiday earlier this year, but I was near Barcelona - it seems that some beach areas are ok, but many are not, and there was some talk of there being a local club - if you were in it you were more likely to get permission to dig.

I may be wrong, but I thought in Ireland (Southern at least) if a farmer or the like had lost a ring / tractor part you were permitted to look for it with a detector - and then anything else you found was ok (although had to be handed in)

Well whether the farmer has or hasn't lost his lynchpin that's always the story lol. The offence like France is the digging up of historical items (along with the sale, advertising or promotion of metal detectors), so as long as you promise to only dig coins of say 100 years or so your OK but any older and you're liable to a fine as ALL historical items belong to the State. Unfortunately my machine doesn't have that good a discrimination lol

i thought about tectin in wales but its way to foreign for me  ;D ;D

my cousin was tecting in spain last week,he had a bit of grief from a hotel owner but ignored him lol

I Also lived in france for 8 years and I joined a French metal detecting club, around 50 members all with there own land to detect on, theres even websites with allsorts of finds posted, roman, bronze age, celtic coins artifacts etc, quite a few magazines out too. we had a couple of rallies with the club getting permission from landowners..club would bury tokens so we were looking for them officially.  we never had any problems, and used to detect beaches with no problem, just don't go on the DD Day beaches in Normandy, I was always told by the French detectorists to say you were looking for a lost ring or something if anyone asked because your not supposed to be look for Antiquity items. its typical of the French they don't know what there own laws are, they just love the red tape bureaucracy.

I also had a lot of my own land got permission from farmers they were fine about it and just said tell anyone your looking for farming machinery parts if anybody was to ask but they never did. one of the Detectorists in the club was even a gendarme french Policeman. :)

people can detect in france and its just the french red tape I lived in france for 18 months and seen quite a few on the beaches sometimes you may have to inform the town mayor and invite him round for a bite to eat and a drink and show your not going to dig up the place   you cant always  live by black and white laws  sometimes grey is ok.

Just come back from France  detecting in Frejus ,Lyon and mont du forez . ;D look forward for the next hunt with the Rhone detecting club .