Monthly Archives: February 2007

Just a quick final note for this month. Gill & Roger came back to TRNC in the early hours of Sunday morning, having flown on the red eye flight. They have been over to their base in the UK for over three months seeing the children, grandchildren etc and have now returned to rejoin The … Continue reading »

We have a definite NO from the UK government on direct flights to TRNC. The Department of Transport has turned down the application because the Greek Cypriot government refused to recognise Ercan as an international airport. Now why does that not surprise us too much and why does the British government refuse to recognise it’s … Continue reading »

We had received a text message on our mobile, that the owner of the Sunset Club had taken on a new venture which was to open this evening. Way up the mountain above Lapta village is The Old Mill. This is a sort of pub, come restaurant with some accommodation built in a very old … Continue reading »

This evening we met up with Mike & Tracey Rodd and their two children at Turks Head Bar. This was especially arranged by Joan beecause Mia’s favourite singer was there this evening Elvis. Danny Fisher, who is well known around the area as an Elvis impersonator is to be found here every Friday evening. Mia … Continue reading »

Further news about the disappearing CTA ticket. we had mentioned the situation, quite deliberately, to a friend, who is sub-editor of Cyprus Today and low and behold we were interviewed by one of their journalists for an article in next Saturdays edition. The journalist said that after he had written the article he spoke to … Continue reading »

PROMISES,PROMISES,PROMISES. We all know how many times that EU, UK and other Politicians have made promises to lift the isolation of the TRNC so this latest article in Cyprus Times is viewed with a certain amount of “here we go again” attitude. MAN leaders and top international players have repeated their promises to lift the … Continue reading »

At least it has been dry since yesterday midday, so the builder was able to come and put a special chemical coating on our terraces and it is hoped that this will seal them because the alternative is a complete re-tile job. That means all the ballustrades have to be removed etc, a big job, … Continue reading »

This morning Joan was busy as we had swopped our cleaner day with George & Susan, they wanted to go off south and visit friends for a few days. That meant that I dropped in to The Pegasus on my own to deal with the annual renewal of our BRS membership and to tell the … Continue reading »

Rain,rain go away, except of course we really need it to fill the reservoirs. But it really is a great pain when the streets are flooding and driving is horrendous. This evening we met up with Vic and Yvonne at Haci Ali’s restaurant. They had mailed us that they wanted to talk about life over … Continue reading »

Yesterday morning we had a huge thunder storm and today it started off nice and sunny but oh boy did it change. Right now it is as black as the ace of spades and hosing it down. This morning I met up with the installation engineers to go to a house in Karsiyaka and put … Continue reading »