Friday, January 16/2015

Phone call from Maria at the travel agency while we're having coffee with M. She's found us a four night (meaning 3day) break in Rome for €210 (£161, $292 CAD) each, which is cheaper than we could go to Egypt, an hour's flight away, or Lebanon, even closer. From Paphos, which is awkward, and with Ryan Air, one of the nastier cheapie airlines, but we go for it anyway. Visa extension would be nice but we have little faith in it actually happening in time. Cypriot bureaucracy is legendary.