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

Finally today I was able to resolve the fight with the local council over our water bill. On average we use 25 to 35 tons of water per month, but, during the period we were in UK, from mid July until 6th September, our water meter showed we had used 620 tons in total. This equates to a total cost of 1.2 billion TL, or around £500. Now you might well imagine that I queried this at some length, in fact I have made numerous advances to the council and have paid no water bills since that date, its a bit like beating your head against a brick wall and of course there are an added four months of water usage to go on since then. Finally I got them to agree that it is very difficult to use water when you are 3,000 miles away, apart from some pool evaporation, so we settled on a compromise, I paid approx £225 for the entire period and the council wrote off the rest.