Tuesday, January 20/2015

Remember that we are only 120 miles or so from Syria, usually an impossible distance in these days of war, but in peace time less than an hour's flight, most of which is ascent and descent. Were the distance filled with land instead of water, everything would be different. As today, when the Cyprus Mail reports that a 39 year old woman (why do newspaper reports always regard precise age as so important?) is arrested for attempting to sell her daughter's passport, having previously succeeded in selling her own passport to a Syrian woman for €2500.