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[T_C]

Happy birthday Militades. Sorry it's late mate, haven't been on the forum much recently...

[Murataga]

Happy birthday militades. I wish you many more years in life with with your loved ones and in good health, for both are the most important two things in this life.

I know we`ve had our differences and we will on the Cyprus Problem but I know our respect is mutual. I`ll be looking forward to your posts and messages. All the best.

[LENA]

Happy Birthday Miltiades one more time...this time the correct day!!

I wish for you the fulfillment of all your dreams! Enjoy your birthday day as better as you can!

[miltiades]

Happy birthday militades. I wish you many more years in life with with your loved ones and in good health, for both are the most important two things in this life.

I know we`ve had our differences and we will on the Cyprus Problem but I know our respect is mutual. I`ll be looking forward to your posts and messages. All the best.

Muratanga , I thank you for your wishes .I wish to assure you that I bear no malice against you or ant of my other T/C brothers. I'm passionately dedicated to one Cyprus for all of us. I understand the pain that the T/Cs endured in the early 60s , last evening a friend of mine Mehmet , who along with his sons owns a bar in South London , he was born in Kalavasos , a 77 year old man of integrity and honesty , told me his experiences in 1963 , he never talks about those events but I insisted and he brought tears to my eyes. He finished by telling me that all Cypriots suffered as a result of the fanatics having the upper hand.

[zan]

Happy birthday once again

[kafenes]

Miltiades, which village of Paphos do you come from??

[miltiades]

[quote="kafenes"]Miltiades, which village of Paphos do you come from??[/quote

I was born in Stroumbi , after the earthquake of 1953 having lost my mother we were taken to the Pediki Stegi in Limassol , I was 7 years old then . Went back to Stroumbi for a couple of years until an uncle of mine took me to live with his family in Agios Loukas Varosia. Returned to Limassol , Agia Fila , where my family had by that time moved to and after attending Lanitio Gymnasio for 3 years left on my own for England in 1961 . That's about it , hope I did not bore you.

Can I just say that my father , who passed away some years ago , was and still is remembered for his amazing TAVLI skills , there is a saying in the village still in use today that goes like this " Epien tsio mastre Mirtis os ta tessera. !! You see my father never won a game , used to get to four frames up and never finished the match a winner!!! I think he used to let them win so that he would get them as customers , he was a tailor.

[kafenes]

No. Not boring at all. Most interesting. Stroumbi is a beautiful village and the Polemi area has the nicest coolest weather in the region. Mastre Mirtis must have been some character.

[miltiades]

He served 3 years prison sharing a cell with the poet Tefkros Anthias , their crime ? they were communists. This during the 30s when communism was illegal in Cyprus under the British. He was a stubborn man so much so that when the judge on three occasions offered to spare him from going to prison if he would renounce his communists activities he replied "I was , I'm , I shall be forever a communist. "
He renounced this ideology some years later .

I know Polemi very well , also Theletra , Kathikas , Yiolou and all those picturesque villages in the Paphos area.
Will be visiting Birkibrisly's village end of May , the Greek name is Kios , and will go through some of the above villages too.

[humanist]

Happy Birthday miltiades and may the Universe guide in achieving your dreams and may the angels hear and answer your wishes for a united peoples of Cyprus ...... AV