Monthly Archives: January 2005

Friday night we all did our usual winter thing and took up residence in Deano’s bar. There we all agreed that we should go out for dinner on the Saturday. The unanimous decision was to go to The Grapevine restaurant down in Kyrenia.We congregated at Deano’s, walked down the road and got taxis down town, … Continue reading »

 Today as usual the weekly Cyprus Today newspaper is out. There is, as one would expect, a lot being written about this arbitrary introduction of  a 15% rate of VAT on all new build properties and this will only apply to foreign buyers. This is clearly another attempt to slow down the rate of new … Continue reading »

Today is Tree Planting Day. So this afternoon I went back to the school with Joan to see the children all plant some trees in the school grounds and then give us all a little show afterwards. First the pupils all got alecture from the headmaster about the importance of trees in our lives and … Continue reading »

This morning I called our regular log delivery man, as I feel we need an extra ton to see us through to the warmer days. The price has gone up again, as it always does when you get to the end of the winter, it now works out at

This lunchtime we met Gloria and Bryan Tattersal, at Henson’s. This couple we had briefly met last week and they have been an e-mail contact for sometime now as they are having a house built here in Lapta.We did here some very disturbing news from them. They had booked with Green Island Holidays, a two … Continue reading »

Last night was the standard trip down to Deano’s, which happens on a Friday night when we have nothing special on. A few beers and a chance to put the world to rights is always good for the soul.Another walk across to the south this morning. Why, you might ask. Well Joan spotted these black … Continue reading »

Because today was the first official day of the Bayram holiday, everything here was closed and for once this week the sun was shining and the temperature back up at 17 degrees. Add to this, the fact that I am supposed to do some walking, as exercise, we decided to drive to the central Nicosia … Continue reading »

A three day Bayram holiday starts here tomorrow and Joan is in fact free already, as the schools close one day in advance. So we were able to collect Peter and Leslie Dent from their hotel and take them through to Nicosia to pick out their kitchen equipment for the house being built in Alagadi. … Continue reading »

Joan has a half term holiday coming up at the end of the month, so after some discussion we decided that we should avail ourselves of the cheaper flights, which are on offer at the moment and come over there to the cold UK. Mind you we have to admit that we are in the … Continue reading »

A real tragedy in this weeks newspaper. One of the school buses has gone off a ravine near Bellapais and an 11 year old girl died and other children are seriously injured. There are two other road fatalities reported also, but unfortunately that seems to be the weekly total of traffic deaths reported. Someday soon … Continue reading »