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Our adventures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus continue....
 
Christmas day and the sun is shining again. That might surprise you as you would expect it to happen all the time here in sunny Cyprus, but in fact we have just had three days of torrential rain. The rain is much needed, but unfortunately here it means flooded roads and building sites that are just one mess of muddy access roads, which of course means that all that mud gets dragged out on to all the other roads. They are busy putting storm drains in many places across the TRNC, but as yet they are not connected to anything, so we still get floods.
But today is nice and Joan and I are invited to join Andrew and Nicola
Paterson and their family for Christmas lunch at the new Golf Club out Esentepe way. The restaurant there was fairly busy and we all had an excellent lunch and with Joan volunteering to drive home, I was able to enjoy a couple of glasses of wine and the brandy to follow.
After lunch Joan and I collected a bottle of champagne from our fridge, presents for Laura and Mathew, which had been left, by the little fat man in the red suit, under our tree and then joined them all for their second session of present time. Apparently they had first stated around 5 o'clock this morning, which must have been Santa's first visit. Great fun and this included a game of children's charades. Nicola gave us her version of I,m a little goldfish or was it a penguin, whatever it sure was better than Joan's attempt at winning an acting award. Would you believe that this was supposed to be a fire engine !!!
All round a super day and for Joan and I a great change to be around children on Christmas day and see the excitement that makes this so much a family thing.
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