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Our adventures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus continue....
  
Many of you who know me will also know that I have never been a fan of HSBC as bank over here. I have always understood them to be a sort of franchise operation, which they flatly deny of course, and they charge far too much for their services. Well today I have had proof that I was right. A friend came over from UK with a large value bank draft from his HSBC branch in UK. When he presented it here they told him it would cost £150.00 to clear a
nd take four weeks. Now correct me if I am wrong, but a bank draft to me was a guarantee of money to the receiver and means that that money has been earmarked to cover the draft. Worse than that, the man had to go and try to explain to management here what a bank draft was.
If he had opened an account with the bank we used, written himself a cheque on his UK account, he could have had it in his account the same four weeks later and been charged nothing. Think I have just discovered what HSBC really stands for "He Shall Be Charged".
This evening, Joan and I went with Anne and Barbara to a relatively new restaurant in Alsancak, called Charcos. Very old village house which has be refurbished, small restaurant area with tables for four/five only so we could not go there with the gang so easily, but it was very good and definitely will be on our list of places to eat.
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