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Our adventures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus continue....
 
After a long day and night we arrived in Beijing at 1 p.m. and took a taxi to the hotel, all really in need of fresh showers etc after trying to sleep on the plane overnight. John was very generous in Instanbul airport as he decided it was his turn to buy the drinks. Bryan and I had a beer each and these were charged at 12 YTL each. Oops, sorry John, but no doubt Stewart will be amused when he reads this.
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got our first financial shock this afternoon by arranging to meet in the coffee shop. They did six special Blue Mountain coffees, despite the request for Nescafe and then tried to charge almost £5.00 each for them.
As we were all fairly tired we just wandered down town a little to get some basic supplies, like tonic, beer, Nescafe etc as the hotel prices are silly then went for dinner. We found the food court in the hotel to be excellent value. Six different dishes, fried rice, four large beers and a couple of cokes all for £20.00 the lot. We just refrained from asking for coffee any more.
One thing that really stood out whilst we were walking the streets was the outstanding workmanship of all the electric cables. This lot makes TRNC Kibtek look positively proffessional.
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