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Our adventures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus continue....
  
You obviously all know about the referendum and the news that we remain a divided island, but that the Greek south became a member of the EU on 1st may. Well there had been a sort of plan to go across on mass waving EU passports, but we all thought better of this, as they might have not been too happy on the other side by an "invasion". Well we had heard that some people had been getting across without problem, despite what the journalists had been reporting, so Joan and I decided that we would give it a try, they could only turn us back at the border! Well we parked the car on the north side and walked through first TRNC passport control, where they looked at ou
r passports and gave us a separate loose sheet visa pass and then we walked across no-mans land and were just waved through without any passport check. Makes you wonder were journalists get all this (nearly an Anglo-Saxon word inserted there) from, maybe they dream up stories at night.We found our way into the high street, a walk of about 2 miles from parking the car, sat in the sun and had coffee. As it was Sunday, most of the shops were closed but we did find Woolworth's open. It's a huge great department store, just like in UK except for one thing, it's actually Debenhams. They had all the brand labels that you see in UK, Casual Club, Maine, etc. So Joan had a lovely time wandering around there and even, surprise, surprise, managed to find a couple of things she just couldn't do without. We had a bit of a walk around the town centre and saw the remnants of the May 1st celebrations then sat and had a beer before walking back to the north side, again just waved through without a glance. An interesting exercise and clearly as a shopping trip, something that the girls could just go across and do any time. I think in a couple of weeks we will try to go across by car, maybe with Michael and Barbara to take a look at Limassol or somewhere
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