Monthly Archives: March 2006

This week Joan has been very busy showing her customers Daryl & Keri Graham around her furniture suppliers. They have bought a new villa in Alsancak which is just about at the hand over stage and Daryl’s Mum & Dad have bought a similar villa just up the road. The contact came through this website … Continue reading »

I feel sure that this item has been in all the press in UK, but today there was to be a partial eclipse of the sun over Turkey and visible over the island as well. Lots of articles in the press about the link between an eclipse and previous earthquakes. Stories about earthquakes in Turkey … Continue reading »

A couple more items from the weekend papers. Firstly another funny, or planning blunder. Kyrenia road system is now going to sport two new roundabouts. Now that the one near the Astro supermarket is almost finished the designers have admitted to a small blunder, when you come down from the football stadium road it is … Continue reading »

This morning I had to make a visit down town to a customer so decided to treat my car to the newest car wash in town. There is an American Style carwash next door to Lemar on the west side of Kyrenia where they did a superb job of both the inside and outside of … Continue reading »

During this week Jim & Linda McKenna have been over here with his brother and sister in law and friends Vince and Kathy Stapleton. They have all bought villas up in Arapkoy and have bought Bosch equipment from us for their kitchens. So this evening Atay Rashid, the MD for Bosch togeteher with his wife … Continue reading »

Joan has had customers over this week and consequently had a couple of runs in to Nicosia to show them around some of her furniture suppliers. She is finding that people want to look at what is available long in advance of their property being ready, just to budget for the future in most cases. … Continue reading »

Sunday and black clouds with thunder greet us. Only one thing to do, back to bed with a cup of coffee and the weekly newspaper so that I can select things of interest for the site. Great news, the CENSUS DAY has been cancelled until sometime in April. Apparently the reasons are, local authorities have … Continue reading »

Phew what a week. We ahve both been quite busy with customers over here, which can only be good, but also nights out as well. But then many of you would say, whats new about that. On Tuesday it was del & sandra’s anniversary and they had suggested dinner for the four of us at … Continue reading »

Lots in the news this week. A strict 13 hour curfew, for us all, on Sunday 26th March. This is census day and we all have to remain in and around our homes between the hours of 5 a.m. and 6 p.m. whilst they do a head count across the whole of the TRNC. Apparently … Continue reading »

Joan’s birthday and Michael & Barbara’s 46th wedding anniversary. Many will remember that last year we had a big joint party out in the sunshine to celebrate this event, but nothing like that this year it is cold and rather wet so we had to just go out together for a special occasion dinner to … Continue reading »