Monthly Archives: November 2006

Confrontation day with Cyprus Turkish Airlines today. Remember back in June, when we went to the BRS dinner which was a fund raising event in aid of the Girne new accident and emergency ward. The BRS had raised

Late start after a nice long lie-in with a good book. The full English sitting out in the sun and then an evening birthday party. Our next door neighbour, Barbara, is 21 plus a few more months, today and invited a whole mass of us, to wish her well around her dinner table. In fact … Continue reading »

Sometimes when life just goes on as normal it is difficult to find interesting things to talk about. Three trips to the supermarket and another dinner in a local restaurant must get boring for you all. However the newspapers do sometimes give some interesting items, such as:- A two month moratorium to curb the concrete … Continue reading »

Many e-mails already about yesterdays news regarding the new found attitude of the Greek Cypriots. The whole message to be got across is surely, wherever possible use the local airport and if for logistical or financial reasons you feel you must travel via Larnaca, then whatever you do, don’t carry any papers or other items … Continue reading »

IMPORTANT BREAKING NEWS………. This was sent to me courtesy of another website (North Cyprus Biz)and shows the copyright of the Cyprus Times newspaper. “Arrest the lot” 23/11/2006 A NEW LAW has gone into force that paves the way for sentencing anyone who resides, builds on, purchases or sells property formerly owned by Greek Cypriots in … Continue reading »

The start of pay back time. All those free meals we ahd from friends whilst we had no kitchen are no hopefully going to be repaid by having people to dinner here. This evening Michael & Barbara together with Stewart & Barbara, were treated to the five dollar tour of the changes and then a … Continue reading »

Final stages of the painting being done today, so if the weather is nice at the weekend I will put some last pics of the updated villa on the site. The painter actually worked all day Sunday as well, to get things finished for us and we have to confess that it is nice to … Continue reading »

Collected Gulnaz, our cleaning lady at 8 a.m. this morning as yesterday she was far too full of cold to come to us. Also Serkan our builder sent his guys along to do some of the final bits of work. Most of the work still to do is down to the painter and he is … Continue reading »

Lovely, a day having our new house to ourselves and then a quiet dinner in with a DVD and a bottle of wine to wash it all down with. It’s great having old friends to stay, but it is also great when you get your own space back.

Ugh, another 4 a.m. start to get those two to the airport. Really must get our visitors to book more sensible times. I suppose that the profuse thanks from them both and the tears in Co’s eyes when they left showed that they had really enjoyed their stay and probably missed us more than we … Continue reading »