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Our adventures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus continue....
  
The plan was to go down to LD's this evening but then we got the bad news. Alec their chef has had his renewal of residency turned down. Alec has been here three years now but suddenly the authorities have decided that he is too young and I understand that he is not the first person to have his renewal refused on that basis. We think that what they are trying to do is to say, young local Turkish Cypriots should do the work. Now this is not such a ridiculous idea except for one thing, the locals are such lazy buggers that they would not do the work. It is unfortunately a fact that the locals have been feather bedded for so long that they do not have any work experience and need usually three or four people to do the work of one Brit. We w
ill have to wait and see what happens from now as Alec is trying to go over to Turkey, come back on a 90 day visa and try to work things out.
The alternative place we decided to try is "The Hillside". A new restaurant ownership situation in Lapta. This was quite good and value for money but not quite LD's standard.
We all went out to welcome George and Susan back to the island after their Xmas and New Year in UK. We were a little surprised to hear George say that they had been broken in to whilst they were away, the only things stolen were their DVD and CD collection and a couple of pieces of jewelery that Susan had forgotten to put in the safe. Oh yes and Susan's hairdryer and the bathroom scales, strange. Whilst they were away I had been sticking my head in every 5/6 days and nothing had been visible regarding a break-in. There was even his laptop lying around in the lounge so one would not think that would still be there if somebody had broken in. Andrew and I had discovered that the shutters on the rear terrace were open, but having both walked around we deided that it was the wind that had caused the problem. We repaired the shutters and secured them again, so were very surprised when Susan discovered all the CDs etc missing. There have unfortunately, as previously reported, been an increase in break-ins of late usually when people are away so we need to consider our security. Sad really because that has never been a problem here.
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