Monthly Archives: June 2007

Hot, Hot, Hot, say the headlines and they are right and there is no let up during the coming week. This has been one of the hottest Junes ever recorded with temperatures reaching almost to 44C during the week. I am writing this blog at 5 a.m. and the temperature in the house is already … Continue reading »

This evening was the annual BRS Summer Party. This year it was held at The Denizkizi Hotel, who did a good job with the buffet food etc but they ran out of good wine and were offering warm beer at 8.30 p.m. Would you not realise that when there is likely to be an attendance … Continue reading »

Oh dear, this one was the 69th. Happy Birthday was the wish from many of my friends, who joined us on what is one of our favourite days out, a boat trip out of Girne old harbour. We have done this every year since my 65th and always we end up booking a few more … Continue reading »

Once again we had received an invite to attend the Army Benevolent Funds band concert and picnic Shakespeare House. Ann & Jeff are both ex-army and Ann is still involved with the Benevolent Fund, so we get the opportunity to participate in one of these events each year. The music is tremendous and it is … Continue reading »

Now that we are back it is time to start looking at the local newspapers again. The first article of interest is about a triple increase in water prices, promised from January 1st next. You thought you had inflation back in blighty….. The government say that this is needed in order to make the investments … Continue reading »

This evening saw nine of us go down to The Sunset Club for a jazz evening and a BBQ. Joan and I joined this club a couple of years ago and they have some good evenings during the summer months, but it also a good place to just come and relax by the sea.

Today Joan and I were invited to attend the very first Speech Day arranged by Sunny Lane School. A total of 800 attend the new Mercure Hotel in Kervansary for what was to be the school’s first English-style speech day. There are now 250 pupils at this school and they were all waiting anxiously to … Continue reading »

IMPORTANT MESSAGE. O.K. we are now back in some sort of functioning mode and almost awake. I have a number of e-mails on the system that I will respond to over the next couple of days, but. When I finally got on to the server in Shanghai there were 748 e-mails clogging up my server. … Continue reading »

Well we made it back after a 17 hour flight from Shanghai to Beijing and the Beijing to Istanbul, followed by our final flight from Istanbul to Ercan, which was an hour late due to fog at this end. Yesterday was written off as with the flight and the 6 hour time difference we were … Continue reading »

Yesterday was our free day around Shanghai and we spent most of it in either the Old Shanghai Bazaar or up the Nanjing Road shops. It was quite a tiring day for Bryan and I watching the girls spending money, but what is interesting is the amount of haggling that goes on. You never accept … Continue reading »