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Our adventures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus continue....
  
Not a massive amount of news from us this week apart from the very changeable weather situation. One day we are sitting outside having breakfast and the next we are trying to avoid gallons of water flowing down the streets of Kyrenia. The first four days of this month was the Bayram holiday for the local people and I seem to recall that every time we got a nice long weekend break in the UK, it persisted down, until the day we went back to work. So you see, some things are exactly the same here as in UK.
The weekend has been quite lovely, Joan even got her shorts out and spent time clearing up the winter debris in the garden and even washed her own car, I managed to repair some of the trellis work that had been damaged by the gazebo, in passing, so we are all ready for the growing season to start again.
We have recently been frequenting a new restaurant for us, called The Padishah. It
used to be a lunch time only restaurant, but it has changed hands and now serves a reasonable wine list and some wonderful local dishes. The restaurant is easy to find, it is 50 yards up the little side street, opposite The Colony Hotel. On Saturday night we went there with Michael and Barbara and we all really enjoyed the lovely food, at a ridiculously low price.
As for all the other questions I am frequently asked about reunification and joining the EU etc. the answer is still very much the same. We don't have an answer, but we do have a new coalition government and maybe they will have a slightly different approach than the previous government. The newspapers are full of every politician in the world sticking their noses in what is essentially a local problem and I have a problem understanding why Mr Bush, Jack Straw, Mr Verheugen, Uncle Tom Cobbley and all should be so adamant about us acquiescing to the Annan plan when not one of them has ever lived here and understood the local peoples problems about living together. But then I suppose that's politicians the world over, forget to listen to the people once they have that warm seat in parliament.
Oh yes, on the subject of frequently asked questions, if I am a little slower than usual getting round to answering your e-mails, please accept my apologies. I am having to be very careful with incoming mail of late, we are getting dozens and dozens of e-mails, from new sources, all with potential viruses attached. Thank goodness for Norton anti-virus and some spam filtering software, which seems to be filtering lots out, but if it looks dodgy then its the delete button that gets some action. On the same vain, if I have inadvertently deleted an e-mail from someone and you have not had a reply, then I am sorry, but it was not intentional
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