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[Bucksboy]

Don't forget to stock up on the penicillin for your trip north [/quote]

Would this be for me or my guests?

What is it today then.....let me see.....UK water and truck drivers!
Shall I bring fresh venom back from the north for you?

[GorillaGal]

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 !!!

Miltiades,
every May, as part of my community service, i walk in the Revlon Run/WalK for Women's Cancers,, and raise funds for them. (last year i raised over $3000!) This wonderful charity helps women worldwide in searching for a cure for cancers that plaugue us. this year i will walk for your lovely Mrs. It may not be the Tulip Foundation, but it is a much larger organization that helps more women globally. We walk from Times Square, up through Central Park. it is an incredible experience, I am happy and proud to be a part of!

[GorillaGal]

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

and in the USA

[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

and in the USA

One of my favourite films by Spielberg is "Duel" ... where the mysterious driver of one of those huge articulated trucks hunts down the salesman in his car. Such intense cinematography and reflective of the style used in "Jaws"...

We've had a number of "experiences" on the roads in the US. One time we had to backtrack along a deserted highway to avoid a crazed sniper that was taking pot shots at people as they drove past on the main road. That was seriously scary!

Californian dreams .....

[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 !!!

Miltiades,
every May, as part of my community service, i walk in the Revlon Run/WalK for Women's Cancers,, and raise funds for them. (last year i raised over $3000!) This wonderful charity helps women worldwide in searching for a cure for cancers that plaugue us. this year i will walk for your lovely Mrs. It may not be the Tulip Foundation, but it is a much larger organization that helps more women globally. We walk from Times Square, up through Central Park. it is an incredible experience, I am happy and proud to be a part of!

Good on you kid !! I'm always proud of people who go out and do something for charitable causes .Hope your health improves and that you will always remain ,as you are now , a lovely caring lady .
xx

[webbo]

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 !!!

Miltiades,
every May, as part of my community service, i walk in the Revlon Run/WalK for Women's Cancers,, and raise funds for them. (last year i raised over $3000!) This wonderful charity helps women worldwide in searching for a cure for cancers that plaugue us. this year i will walk for your lovely Mrs. It may not be the Tulip Foundation, but it is a much larger organization that helps more women globally. We walk from Times Square, up through Central Park. it is an incredible experience, I am happy and proud to be a part of!

Good for you gori mou.

I did the Starlight Challenge walk for Cancer that was here in Cyprus last March - (it started at Midnight though I cannot remember why the late time! )

It was probably my first sponsored walk since I was in secondary school and I loved every minute of it - and no blisters!!

Alas, it is only going to be held every other year - still - something to look forward to I suppose ...........................

bubbles x