Our adventures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus continue....

Well now there is hope for the telephone link. Today the contractors moved in to dig big trenches all down the road. Road closed, park in the field again. Thank goodness we bought a 4 wheel drive vehicle. The trenches need to be 1 meter deep and then have a sand layer, under and over the plastic pipe. So the sand lorry came down the road, dumped his sand, then slipped off the edge into mud. So there they were, stuck again and there was about 2 hours of pushing and pulling by the JCB needed, to get him out.The trench and pipe laying is to take until the end of the week and then providing that the work is acceptable to the telecoms department, then cables can be pulled through and we can get hooked up to the real world. We are all sitting here, fingers crossed, hoping for Xmas, but it is getting very close.