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Çiftlikdüzü Restaurant
Saturday during daytime, we did what we are best in, relaxing around the pool. We had decided to go out with David, Özlem and Talia. Amalia and Talia go very well together, and we would like them to meet again. This time we went to Çiftlikdüzü restaurant, my favourite local cypriot place. The restaurant is a local rustic place, with the best handmade, from the bottom, organic food. The place is run by my old friends, Leyla and Orhan Güvenlier with their children Olgun and Muzzi. Muzzi is at present being educated as a chef in a Famagusta school. Olgun is doing his compulsory military service in Turkey at the…
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Ercan, agm and Spice Garden
Friday started with picking up Stian, Kristine and children at the Ercan airport outside of Nicosia. Arrival was at 1.40 am from Oslo with a stopover in Istanbul. Met them to aid with baggage and look up the hire car. They were out around 2 am and we started walking around the car park searching for the car. Rental cars in this country is normally just delivered to the car park, with keys on one of the frontwheels and big sign inside with your name on. Cars are returned the same way, just leave it in the car park with keys on the frontwheel. Only issue of importance, is never…
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Spice Garden, Little Stones and The dark side
On Tuesday, there were some need of repairs in the apartment, the main fly screen were falling off, and also a general tidying up before cleaners arrives tomorrow. After finishing my work early evening, i texted my good friend Khalid, who is running Spice Garden together with his brother Sajid, to have a table reserved. Actually not necessary, as I ‘m promised by Khalid to allways have a table no matter what. Spice Garden is one of my favourite restaurant over here. Big was my surprise when we drove off, just to find Khalid in the middle of a road crossing, walking about, with his car crashed. He had driven…
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Karpaz Gate Marina Beach Club
Yesterday we were back at the beach club for another relaxing day. Met up with the Robbos together with Tony and Marg, who had come up from the dark side (the south side of Cyprus). Weather has changed a bit, even though it is sunny all day, you can feel the the air is slightly cooler. The pool felt like a pond of icy water. We measured it to 26 degrees. This shows how spoiled we are. Having 26 degrees back home would be considered boiling hot. Nothing exiting happened during the day. Had lunch up there and nearly finished reading my book. Found Papillon by Henry Charriere in the…
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Last week
No update last half week as we have been quite busy. Thursday started by driving into town. Tove had an appointment with Pamper Yourself to do her nails. This beauty salon is really good, according to Tove. The price over here for such treatment is 120 TL compared to 1000 kr at home for the same, not bad. We then went downtown to have my wrist watch battery changed. Cost 20tl compared to 250 kr back home. Not bad either. The store also advertised Rolex from 40 euros. Think I may afford one next time we’re there. Must prove it is a real fake one ?. Next on the list…
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Lord’s Palace and Bella Marin
Once again we we back at this fabulous place for sunbading, a dip into the sea, and being spoiled by this site’s great service. Linda, Derek and Joanne had booked a cabana and luckily asked us to join. Can’t explain our gratitude. The place is incredible to an incredible price. The cabana is 350tl on weekdays with up to 6 people. The price included water bottles for all, a welcome drink and a huge fruit basket. With food and beverage package for 1000 tl, you chose whatever you like from the menu. In addition to the cabana itself, there is also 4 sun beds and an umbrella.
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Official opening of our extended roof terrace
Yesterday we had invited some good friend to see the sun set and officially open our extended roof terrace. As it was close to 2 weeks since our last shopping, we started the day with shopping trip to Kyrenia to have all necessities in place for the evening. Dropped in to Little Stones to have a word with Ozy and David, only to find we were expected and lunch were prepared. Had lovely smoked salmon and a glass of white. The white was Mud House Sauvignon Blanc. Thank you David and Ozy. As mentioned above, Mud House, is our favourite white at present. Not that it is the best in…
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16th of September 2019
Today started with the arrival of Zakir at around 9:30. He was going to finish off the work of extending our roof terrace. The work was actually finished, but certain parts we were not satisfied of, would be fixed. As the weather had approved from yesterday’s rain, I set up the sun sail and all cushions were taken out again. After Zakir left, Tove and I sat upstairs relaxing under the sun, reading a book. After a while, feeling quite tired, we decided to turn on the air con and have a nap in the bedroom. Woke up after about an hour just to find a thunderstorm had started and…
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Girne Amfiteatro – Killer Queen
Yesterday we went to the Girne Ampitheater for the Killer Queen consert. We were Jan and Liv Kjersti Sørlie, Linda, Derek and Jo Robinson together with Tove and I. Had taxi into town so all could relax. Started with a light meal in Manipenny and then on to the theatre. It was packed and the atmosphere electric. A thunderstorm passed by out in the sea with spectacular lightnings. Dominic, on his last performance in the north, warmed up before Killer Queen entered the stage. The performance was incredible. After the show we walked up to the Colony Hotel sky bar for a drink before returning home in the taxi.
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12th September 2019
We have had a few days where we have struggled with something looking like the Novovirus, but all are now fit and ready again. Unfortunately, this day is the end of Laila and Anja’s stay, so we drove them to Lanaca airport. We’ve had a marvellous time together, so, please, come back another time. After dropping them off at the airport, Tove and I took the motorway all the way up to Paralimni with the intention to pay Lidl a visit. Was a bit disappointed as they had very little or no beef at all. However, managed to pick up some bottles of real Champagne, so trip was not a…
