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Our adventures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus continue....
  
Well Darryl and the guys from Australian Construction came up trumps. They promised us the keys for 1st November and that is exactly what we got. There are one or two things to clear up, which more of later, but we have to say that they kept their promise. When we got to Lapta in the morning, Darryl and a little swarm of his workers, where doing last minute things, but basically, we are all together and I have to say the house is looking superb. The next big thing will be the arrival of the furniture. At 7.30 in the evening, two customs officers arrived, suitably wined and dined by the freight forwarders, together with the 40 foot container and a team of
8 to off load. From here on in a moderate amount of chaos ensued. Joan was directing packages, according to the brief description on the documents, I was upstairs trying to make sure everything got placed in the right rooms and that all the big pieces were unpacked. Most of the reasonable sized cartons ended up in the downstairs rooms for Joan and I to attend to over the next week, but at least unpacking some of the items meant that a lot of the packaging went back in the container. Drinks, crisps, cookies and a couple of whiskies for the officials seemed to work wonders. Finally by just after midnight, Joan and I went back to our rented house and sank gratefully into bed. Maybe we had a little drinkie to celebrate but my memory doesn't go back 15 days.At the end of all this exercise it looks as if only 4 items were damaged. A chest of draws from the spare bedroom, repairable here by the cabinet maker. The cast iron leg of a garden table was snapped, this probably can't be repaired but, a wrought iron base could be made to take the existing top. A glass vase and a china ornament were broken beyond any possible repair. So now we await the insurers decision. I suppose at the end of the day, if you consider that all this stuff was packed some 5 months ago and has been handled many times, then not a bad result.
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