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Our adventures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus continue....
The highways department says that the first 5 km of the new Girne bypass should be open by April next. If that comes off it should relieve the congestion in town quite considerably. The paper reports on the new upheaval in the High Street in the middle of Girne. It is not long since the local authority finished re-laying all the new road and pavements and now it is all dug up again, this time they say for new street lighting, a project they did not have the money for first time round. I must say. having driven down there last week, it is an absolute mess amd must be a real nightmare for both pedestrians and the shopkeepers. Anybody coming over next weekend should remember that it is the Bayram at the end of Ramadan beginning next Monday 23rd October and everything will be closed for three days minimum. It is likely that some businesses will remin closed for the whole week. Make sure you have enough money etc as the machines will empty very quickly over the weekend. Inflation was predicted to be 5 to 6% for the whole of 2006 but figures show that it has already rocketed to 18%. This is a serious problem for the new government but difficult to control as the TRNC uses the Turkish Lira as currency and has no influence on its exchange against foreign currencies. Add to this the fact that inflation in Turkey is also much higher than predicted and the problem grows. The construction industry says that there is no sign of the predicted building boom as a result of the positive result in the Orams case, but then inflation rises like we currently have makes retirement here and holidays in the TRNC less attractive than in previous periods. |
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A few days of no internet at all is not very funny. At first we thought that it was as a result of the electric storms but it turned out to be some vindictive act against our internet supplier. It would seem that this person had succeeded in getting access to the satellite service supplier and then changing the Internet Club website pages to say that the Internet Club was closing down and that they had access to all customer mail and banking passwords etc and were misusing this information. They had no choice but to cut everybody off and then try to recreate the entire system with new passwords on the system. It would seem that four of them spent 48 hours working non stop to get everybody live again. All credit to them for that and now we can all get mail and internet access again. |