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Our adventures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus continue....
The tender has been offered to a Turkish mainland firm to complete the Girne bypass. No firm date, but they suggest that it will not take long. Andrew and I got the first idea that something may be happening when we tried to come back that way on Thursday. Everybody has been using a stretch of the road for some time now, maybe illegally, but now they have erected steel barriers across the entrances of the road to prevent its use. Committee members of the BRS attended meetings with government ministers this week to discuss the issue of immigration and buying permits. They came away from the meetings far more hopeful than before, so maybe things will slowly get better. I have said before that I have a good feeling about this new government, but they of course have a huge financial problem to resolve at the same time. Carnage on the roads is another headline. More speed related accidents every week and head on crashes. I don't think they print the same stories in the Turkish language newspapers or maybe the drivers can't read. Yesterday, Joan and I were going towards Girne in a slow moving traffic queue, because one van was towing another broken down van, so a little patience was required. As we approached a blind left hand bend, two vehicles from the very back of the line came rushing past at high speed, two cars in front of me somebody else pulled out without looking in his mirror and with his mobile phone jammed between his shoulder and his ear, we almost had our own carnage on the road. I said words to the effect of "silly fools" whilst braking very hard and pulling in to the left. They just can't see the problem at all. |
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Strike Threat: "Life will come to a halt" say the unions. Ercan airport came to a halt for a time last Wednesday and medical staff will only treat emergencies. Much more is threatened. Why? Because the government has threatened their precious easy life of no work lots of pay and lots of overtime payments. The unions can see pressure coming down from Turkey to bail out this country and can see the easy life disappearing. Don't know when the stupid idiots will ever realise that they can't continue this way and survive. The next question of course is, we know the union major leader is no Arthur Scargill, but is the new prime minister a Maggie. Do we have the strength here to fight this situation and quickly. Meantime folks we can always do the unthinkable and fly out of Larnaca. |