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[cyprusgrump]

Okay, here is my contribution…

I arrived in Cyprus on October 18th 2002 and moved into a tiny ‘village house’…

Within a few days of my moving in the family that run the local supermarket started sending delicious meals round on plates ‘because they had cooked too much’. Perhaps I was looking a little thin…

As Christmas approached they asked what I would be doing for Christmas day and insisted that I joined their family. I explained that my parents where flying over for Christmas but they insisted that they came too – so we all had the most wonderful Christmas lunch (souvla, etc.) at the supermarket.

Likewise Easter. They managed to dig out two ancient bottles of ‘Keo Vintage’ (I mean really old) which we drank with the Easter soup (I’m sorry, I don’t know its name) after Midnight mass.

I got my car stuck in some mud just outside the village after some overly ambitious off-roading. The only person I could think off calling was the waiter in one of the village restaurants because I had his number and he had a Land Rover. So I called him and he said he would be there in thirty minutes ‘because he was at a wedding in Limassol and he had to go home and take his suit off first’.

I lost my wallet in Pafos. With hindsight my subconscious registered it falling on the floor as I got out of my car at Pafos port but I didn’t discover it missing ‘til days later. I searched and went to the police station with no luck but then The Bank of Cyprus called from Tomb of the Kings to announce that somebody had found it, noticed the BoC cash card inside and handed it in – cash intact. Didn’t even leave a name so that I could reward them.

Need I go on?

A Cypriot by proxy ... long may you reside on this island cyprusgrump

Kokoretsi is the name of the soup I think ... spinach and liver are the main ingredients .... yuck! .... but I do remember competitions with my brothers to see who could have the most, when we came back from midnight Mass at Easter ... with our candles lit ....

I’m afraid I re-lit my candle with a lighter after the church… I was considered somewhat of a hero to get it all the way bay to the supermarket without it going out…

[miltiades]

Okay, here is my contribution…

I arrived in Cyprus on October 18th 2002 and moved into a tiny ‘village house’…

Within a few days of my moving in the family that run the local supermarket started sending delicious meals round on plates ‘because they had cooked too much’. Perhaps I was looking a little thin…

As Christmas approached they asked what I would be doing for Christmas day and insisted that I joined their family. I explained that my parents where flying over for Christmas but they insisted that they came too – so we all had the most wonderful Christmas lunch (souvla, etc.) at the supermarket.

Likewise Easter. They managed to dig out two ancient bottles of ‘Keo Vintage’ (I mean really old) which we drank with the Easter soup (I’m sorry, I don’t know its name) after Midnight mass.

I got my car stuck in some mud just outside the village after some overly ambitious off-roading. The only person I could think off calling was the waiter in one of the village restaurants because I had his number and he had a Land Rover. So I called him and he said he would be there in thirty minutes ‘because he was at a wedding in Limassol and he had to go home and take his suit off first’.

I lost my wallet in Pafos. With hindsight my subconscious registered it falling on the floor as I got out of my car at Pafos port but I didn’t discover it missing ‘til days later. I searched and went to the police station with no luck but then The Bank of Cyprus called from Tomb of the Kings to announce that somebody had found it, noticed the BoC cash card inside and handed it in – cash intact. Didn’t even leave a name so that I could reward them.

Need I go on?

Would you have lost your wallet way back in 2002 -03 ??
I remember being in Paphos round about 02-03 with my daughter and son in law , to become , when a wallet was found and was handed to the Bank of Cyprus !! Coincidence maybe !!!
ps. Rewards to the Cancer Tulip fund please !!!

[cyprusgrump]

Wow!

I can’t remember exactly when it was but I shall make a donation anyway… thanks very much if it was you!

[Bucksboy]

Ok, heres one from me too!

The other day i was about to set out to work when i noticed i had a flat. As my back was playing up I couldn't do the necessary, so I walked across to the local tire place, gave the guy my key and told him to sort it.

Came back an hour or so later, tire fixed, how much i said to him, ah don't worry about it, have it on me.

I was so proud to be greek then. Bless the fella.

Hhhmmm pantheman .... do you mean Cypriot?

I had a similar experience, a few weeks ago, with a garage in Limassol which had closed, but the owner replaced my misshapen tyre, when I caught his eye across the courtyard, so that I could go back home on the motorway....

I did pay though ......

The Greek/cypriot thing was a deliberate attempt to provoke some of these anti - greek forumers into staring another row.

Guess you were quick off the mark.

Yea, well it hasn't happend has it!
We can all see throught that thin guise!

[webbo]

Bubbles,
Brief Ecounter the railway station scene was filmed at Carnforth,30 miles south of where I live.
Little has changed,still the steam trains around the back..
By the way I am NOT a train spotter.

Cheers Purdey. Was I close by saying it was near Preston - or did I mean Morecambe?!

As you can tell, Geography is not my strong point!


Bubbles x

[Oracle]

Ok, heres one from me too!

The other day i was about to set out to work when i noticed i had a flat. As my back was playing up I couldn't do the necessary, so I walked across to the local tire place, gave the guy my key and told him to sort it.

Came back an hour or so later, tire fixed, how much i said to him, ah don't worry about it, have it on me.

I was so proud to be greek then. Bless the fella.

Hhhmmm pantheman .... do you mean Cypriot?

I had a similar experience, a few weeks ago, with a garage in Limassol which had closed, but the owner replaced my misshapen tyre, when I caught his eye across the courtyard, so that I could go back home on the motorway....

I did pay though ......

The Greek/cypriot thing was a deliberate attempt to provoke some of these anti - greek forumers into staring another row.

Guess you were quick off the mark.

Yea, well it hasn't happend has it!
We can all see throught that thin guise!

Don't flatter yourself Bucksboy, you were caught dozing and it passed you by......

Don't forget to stock up on the penicillin for your trip north

[Oracle]

On the way back from Paphos today, we were stuck behind a slow moving van. A long line of cars built up as we wound our way through the mountainside. At the first widening of the roadside the van ambled into the "Verge" and waved us all past.

I know this is a common occurrence, it's just that I was reminded of it again today ... and it is something you rarely encounter elsewhere as an endearing habit of truck drivers.

[webbo]

On the way back from Paphos today, we were stuck behind a slow moving van. A long line of cars built up as we wound our way through the mountainside. At the first widening of the roadside the van ambled into the "Verge" and waved us all past.

I know this is a common occurrence, it's just that I was reminded of it again today ... and it is something you rarely encounter elsewhere as an endearing habit of truck drivers.

WRONG! This happens in the UK too

Bubbles

[Oracle]

On the way back from Paphos today, we were stuck behind a slow moving van. A long line of cars built up as we wound our way through the mountainside. At the first widening of the roadside the van ambled into the "Verge" and waved us all past.

I know this is a common occurrence, it's just that I was reminded of it again today ... and it is something you rarely encounter elsewhere as an endearing habit of truck drivers.

WRONG! This happens in the UK too

Bubbles

Despite my having said "rarely encounter elsewhere" ... you could not resist!

I've been driving for 25 years in the UK and I can honestly say it has never happened once! .... this is not a dig at the British, who have many other endearing qualities ... it's just a fact

[webbo]

On the way back from Paphos today, we were stuck behind a slow moving van. A long line of cars built up as we wound our way through the mountainside. At the first widening of the roadside the van ambled into the "Verge" and waved us all past.

I know this is a common occurrence, it's just that I was reminded of it again today ... and it is something you rarely encounter elsewhere as an endearing habit of truck drivers.

WRONG! This happens in the UK too

Bubbles

Despite my having said "rarely encounter elsewhere" ... you could not resist!

I've been driving for 25 years in the UK and I can honestly say it has never happened once! .... this is not a dig at the British, who have many other endearing qualities ... it's just a fact

You must have been extremely unlucky is all I can say!!

Just to set the record straight - it does not happen all the time here either!

Bubbles