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[SSBubbles]

LMFAO - just finished sweeping up the fall out from yesterdays forest fire only to have the guy next door (Cypriot) bring a JCB in to dig out a 50K (gallon / litre?) swimming pool.

It's OK though - he reckons he's going to fill it with spring water!



'Don't do as I do - do as I say!'

Yay Cyprus!

God Bless 'em

Spring water straight from the tap no doubt!

Amazed this place has a water problem - springs are apparently everywhere!

And nope - that wasn't a typo. I really did SWEEP up outside.

To my recently adopted hosts a quick message - a broom can be used to clean up outside.

Don't think I didn't see you all out last night and early on this morning hose pipes aplenty under cover of darkness ......

Jim, we must be neighbours Hosepipes in use when we are not around and shut off if we come into sight!

[Bill]

Amazed this place has a water problem - springs are apparently everywhere!

You are right JimB ~ it seems that springs seem to appear at certain times of the day and they are also very conveniently located at the end of drives or peoples gates.

After all how else could you explain the water running down the streets every evening ~ now if only we could harness those springs in some way we may not have such a severe water problem.

Bill

[roseandchan]

i think that the goverments on both sides are to blame. the roc gov for allowing ayia napa to be promoted in the way it is attracting the sort of people that nobody wants around them. the trnc gov for their give me your money approach. we had a business meeting with the junior tourist minister here, he was late, rude , and a total waste of time. That summed it up for us. Do either gov have anyone qualified in tourism running these departments?

[Bill]

i think that the goverments on both sides are to blame. the roc gov for allowing ayia napa to be promoted in the way it is attracting the sort of people that nobody wants around them. the trnc gov for their give me your money approach. we had a business meeting with the junior tourist minister here, he was late, rude , and a total waste of time. That summed it up for us. Do either gov have anyone qualified in tourism running these departments?

Err ~~~ no ~ and that it seems appears to be the same both sides of the divide

Bill

[roseandchan]

Every tourist i meet say the rubbish is a big problem and also how expensive things are. met a guy in the uk who went on holiday to paphos last year. he was telling me that he could have gone to the barbados for the same money. its the same story this side as well.

[DT.]

Tourism is now down to 17% of GDP contribution and lowering. This may be due to the industry suffering as a whole (here in cyprus and elsewhere) but also because as an industry this is being downgraded systematically by the govt.

This is not alarming because there continues to be a healthy growth to the GDP year on year making this industry less and less of a priority to Cyprus.

Some of the old heads, tourists and foreigners of this forum still consider Cyprus to be a tourist depended economy when it is not. It would be a catastrophe if the industry died completely however a more ideal and healthier contribution would be 5-8% of the GDP.

This in my opinion means that Cyprus is maturing as a state and an economy. It will never be a corfu or a crete as some people "think" it is. It is a viable, healthy EU member state with a service economy and a small manufacturing industry.

Off course mistakes are a plenty (akel govts included) but that is expected in any state.

[roseandchan]

hi dt, i here what you are saying but now cyprus has joined the euro i'm not sure they will do so well. since the euro prices have gone up bigstyle for us having sterling. most people here now shop here in the trnc rather than going south. with the conversion rate that was set, the products and services have become far more expensive than other places in europe. do you not think this will have an effect on exports and the economy in general? why say would a german tourist pay 2 euros more for a coffee in cyprus than in germany? Malta now has the same sort of problem, day to day living has now become more expensive than in london and tourist are just not paying those sort of prices.

[DT.]

hi dt, i here what you are saying but now cyprus has joined the euro i'm not sure they will do so well. since the euro prices have gone up bigstyle for us having sterling. most people here now shop here in the trnc rather than going south. with the conversion rate that was set, the products and services have become far more expensive than other places in europe. do you not think this will have an effect on exports and the economy in general? why say would a german tourist pay 2 euros more for a coffee in cyprus than in germany? Malta now has the same sort of problem, day to day living has now become more expensive than in london and tourist are just not paying those sort of prices.

The problem is one of the entire Eurozone against the sterling and the dollar. The weakening of both currencies makes it expensive for English and Americans but not so for Europeans. I'm in Frankfurt right now actually sitting at a restaurant in the airport and the espresso is 2.70 Euros. (4.50 for a double). I don't think Cyprus is more expensive than that.

However! As per my last post the problem lays with the tourist inflow from the UK into Cyprus which is why we are downgradig this industry and from what i hear re-designing the entire package....(eg Ayia Napa will be transformed into a more upmarket destination with much less capacity)

As for things being more expensive than London, I can tell you that the sterlin has quite a bit more to fall before we start paying anywhere near what the London prices are.

[roseandchan]

i think the days of 18 to 30 holidays are over. i just hope its not too late for cyprus. people are fed up with the beach, burger and chips and the bar type holidays. most people i know do more cultural things,travel to destinations to see real life not blackpool seafront. we loved germany when we visited a few years back, very clean ,except for dogs being allowed in restaurants. hope they have changed that now.

[Feisty]

So the 18-30 year olds are suddenly going to undergo a dramatic change of lifestyle are they?
Amazing insight shown there.