Monthly Archives: September 2003

Am still struggling with this new computer, it just won’t let me publish the website. So here I sit with a whole month’s news to give to the world and I can’t communicate with my host server. A bit of a bugger really, but hopefully my super tech man in UK is hot on the … Continue reading »

A busy day for the two Gillin’s today. Firstly we had to be at the airport to see Bill & Margaret off by 8 a.m. A very sad day as we had had a wonderful 10 days together and just hope to see them back again in the not too distant future. We got home … Continue reading »

Today being there last day before going back to UK, our guests opted for a quiet day in the sun followed by a pre-booked dinner at the Colony Hotel. So there we all were, posh frocks and all out to dinner in the newest hotel in town.

As luck would have it, our car was repaired in time for a collection yesterday afternoon, so we were able to set off for our planned trip up the Karpaz peninsula. As usual we had booked in at the Malibu Motel. A very simple family run hotel with the usual friendly welcome. We left our … Continue reading »

Today we all went to Nicosia, forced on us really by the fact that we had some problem with our car. It seemed to be losing water out of the cooling system so we had booked it into Maxxum’s for a full service and the repair. Norman, bless him, had said use my car if … Continue reading »

Today we took our guests for the big climb up to the top of St Hilarion castle. It is only 746 meters and some of it is done by car, as far as the entrance. After that it is something else, there are around 1500 steps to the very top, but the view is stunning … Continue reading »

Fairly relaxing day today. Took Bill & Margaret up to Bellapais to view the Abbey and have some lunch. They also enjoyed the souvenir shops up there, Margaret managed to by a cashmere pasmina for only

Our friend Richard, one of the partners in Besparmark Properties, had organised a day out on the same boat we used for my 65th party and the wind dropped sufficiently for us to be able to set off early this morning and enjoy the day out. Bill and Margaret really had the good luck that … Continue reading »

The flight from Stanstead was a little late last night, so today was a relax around the pool day to allow us all to recover. Early evening, when it had cooled down a little, we all went for a walk down to the sea front and along the shore, passed the Aphrodite restaurant. This restaurant … Continue reading »

Up very early this morning as Margaret and Norman needed to be at the airport by 6.30 a.m. Still at least I was able to spend more time on the computer problem later in the day and tomorrow our friends Bill & Margaret arrive, so we will be wanting to spend time with them over … Continue reading »