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Our adventures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus continue....
 
PEACE AND FREEDOM DAY.
July 20th this year, celebrates 34 years since the Turkish intervention on the island. Every year there are parades, speeches by dignitaries and a fly past by Turkish Red Arrows.
Six of us joined The African Queen at 12 midday to swim and lunch around some of the bays around Kyrenia. First stop was Escape Beach, one our group have always tried to avoid. I know that today was real reason for people to celebrate but this place is just out of control. Jetskis driven by under age
kids and older show-offs in between the boats were people are swimming and not a coast guard in sight. There are supposed to be rules about the use of these things, but guess it is going to be a death in the water that may make people sit up and take notice.
After a couple of other stops, we sailed back towards the harbour to anchor up and to watch the Turkish Air Force display. They came in across the water at exactly 6 p.m. and somebody was heard to comment "they are obviously not Turkish Cypriots, as they are on time". Guess it must have been somebody with a delayed villa..... As usual we were entertained with a superb performance which included such things as the high speed pass and the really impressive one were somebody must say one of us is upside down. They looked incredibly close and surely only needs a very small error for it to go wrong. They finished off with all eight aircraft climbing and rolling over the boats and the crowd. One thing we all noticed is that they are so much nearer to the crowds than the UK version of the Red Arrows would be allowed.
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