Coming back from Lidl we get caught in a shower and shelter underneath the projecting roof of a bar, closed and padlocked for the season. But it doesn't really blow over. Harder rain is followed by pea-sized hail and when that lets up we head for home and dry clothes. Rains all day (as J says at 9:30 in the evening, it's a good thing we didn't stay under the shelter until it stopped). But at home we're pretty well supplied with reading material. And we're also lucky in that the presence of the British forces means that we have BBC World radio all day on AM and several hours worth of a BBC4 and 5 mix on FM. We'd miss this quite a lot anywhere else. Well, almost anywhere. A quick think about other spots with British bases. Afghanistan? The Falklands? Iraq still? There's Gibraltar, but it's pretty expensive. A definite plus for Cyprus.
