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Our adventures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus continue....
  
Just a week of up and down to the council and the telephone offices to try to get something done, before I completely tear my hair out.
Tuesday morning came a promise to get the telephone men out to the road and to repair the line that day. Guess what nobody turned up, I suppose what they didn't tell us was which Tuesday they were going to turn up, silly me, should have asked, we know better.
Wednesday morning at 9.15 there were two men looking down the hole, having apparently first struggled to get the heavy concrete lid up. Tried to explain that the council had made that lid so thick and heavy because of the damage c
aused by 20+ ton lorries. I fully expected to have a telephone line connected by the time I got home because the two guys had shown me the severed cable and said "yeni" which is Turkish for new. I must have been dreaming because the phone still did not work.
Thursday. After numerous phone calls by my good friend Ertugral, we managed to establish that the telecom people did not like the concrete lid and would not repair the cable until the standard metal phone lid has been installed. Now that is a really interesting idea, because the standard lids over here are only designed to take car weights and it was the standard lid that severed the cable in the first place. So now we have to try to convince them to accept the concrete temporary measure until building work completed.
Friday. Back up to the council offices to talk this through with the mayor again. he wasn't in when I went up at 9.00 a.m. so Michael ventured up later. He made a few phone calls and told Michael that he had explained the situation to the telecom man who accepted the concrete lid was temporary and said somebody would be down later today to fix the cable. Did it happen, did it hell!!! Now its a case of, closed for the weekend all round, so nothing until Monday morning.
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