Monthly Archives: April 2004

Not surprisingly, rumours abound about the island and its future position. The EU seem to be a little upset by the Greek Cypriot referendum result and are offering the funding that was to be made available, to aid the infrastructure here. There is talk about recognition of The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, opening up … Continue reading »

Well finally finished it at last. The gazebo, version 2 that is. The roof is now made up of 40, 2"x1" slats which should allow any wind to whistle through, without lifting the thing off the ground. Here’s hoping. It is our intention to try to get some nice striped canvas and stretch across with … Continue reading »

Well the results are out.  65% of the Turkish Cypriots voted YES to reunification and 75% of Greek Cypriots voted NO. This means that the island will remain divided and the south will go into the EU next Saturday all on their own and the Annan plan is dead. I wonder if we are going … Continue reading »

Today is a big day in the future of this island. Referendum Day. The local people, on both sides of the border get to vote on whether they want reunification or not. If the island does come together then we will also be part of the EU next Saturday, 1st May 2004. We await the … Continue reading »

Today is a Bayram date, dedicated to Children’s Day. All the children in all the local schools were putting on some sort of gala performance, Sunny Lane was of course no exception. Joan stayed on into the afternoon and took some pictures of the very small children in reception class, the boys in their traditional … Continue reading »

This evening was the opening of the new Jashan’s restaurant. Jashan’s is the really great Indian restaurant that used to be just up the road from the Hideaway in Edremit. He had to relinquish his old building back to the owners who apparently want to turn it back in to a house, so Riaz, the … Continue reading »

Today we watched the really heavy lorries coming down our road followed by this huge concrete pumping machine. Clearly the basic gravel track, that suggests it should be our roadway, is totally unsuitable for all these real heavy weights and before they are finished there is going to be some serious damage. On a very … Continue reading »

This morning, Michael and went down town to seek advice from a local solicitor. There are a total of four houses being built, one on the opposite side of our road a little further towards the main road and a further three in the fields opposite Michael and Barbara. Now the building of the houses … Continue reading »

Sunny Lane Primary School, school fete day. The PTA had organised to run a fete to raise funds for various things needed round the school. There were a number of stalls set up to prise money off visitors and parents as a total of 800 million TL was needed to pay for the costumes for … Continue reading »

I had an interesting morning out with Darryl, from Australian Construction, the guys who built our house. I am trying, together with Nic at Bassett Green in UK, to alter their website and bring it up to date and what we needed were some better photos to show off the gallery of bungalows they have … Continue reading »