Tuesday, December 4/2012

Jenny's father, Sam, and stepmother, Paddy, have invited us to visit for a couple of days in their village, Erimi, coinciding with Jenny and Doug stopping at Limassol on their Mediterranean cruise. They were supposed to have gone to Haifa, and Jenny had been looking forward especially to that stop as Sam grew up there and she had hoped to find some of his old haunts. However, as the Israeli situation heated up P&O prudently changed the stop to Limassol. And Sam conceived the plan of our visiting at the same time and coming with them to meet and surprise J and D at the port. We plan to take the bus to Limassol, but Murphy's Law strikes in the form of a country-wide bus strike. Hard not to be in sympathy with the bus drivers: they're not asking for more money - simply to be paid, as Cyprus, teetering on the edge of bankruptcy and asking for an EU bailout, deals unevenly with public employees. So we book with Travel Express, the shared taxi service.