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

The freezer was looking a little bare, so we got up early and were over the border and doing our shoppng by 9 a.m. I know it seems bad to go and give them the business in the south, but it has to be recognised that some stuff, such as meat and other imported products are so very much cheaper than here in the north.

This evening we had our local friends, Atay and his wife Akila, over from Nicosia and we had booked to take them to The Safron restaurant. It turns out that they knew the owner from 1974 when he used to run the Harbour Bar/Restaurant down on the old harbour. We often find that amongst the local people there are some very old friendships from back in those days when the early struggle began. I suppose that the local Turkish Cypriot community was relatively small and particularily those in business knew one another well. I am pleased to say that they really enjoyed the evening out as much as we did and where full of praise for the food.