Monday, February 10/2014

We have only another four weeks before our 90 days in Cyprus is up. Our usual course is to take a side trip but this year it seems that all the obvious candidates - Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Israel - are disqualified. They're too expensive, or too unstable, or we've been recently. Don't really want to spend several hundred euros just to prove we've been out of the country. I devise cunning plan for leaving without leaving. Book cheapest ticket to away (one way will do). Go through security and get exit stamps in passports - now officially out of the country. Claim to have developed sudden illness making flying impossible and insist on returning (having providentially taken only hand luggage). Re-enter via immigration, obtaining new stamps in passport valid for another 90 days. Home for a self-congratulatory drink. Think it might actually work - once if not annually - but J appears not to be taking it seriously, probably rightly.