Thursday, November 19/2015

With Jane and Bill over the border to north Cyprus. Very busy British GCHQ listening post by the border. Think of Cameron's announcement re increasing security personnel. Almost all certain to be GCHQ as recruits available on the open market, only requiring vetting and minor training. We're bound for the Thursday market at Famagusta. Lively and full of flowers, shrubs, fresh produce, clothing, dried fruit and nuts, and minor hardware. Buy leeks, celery green beans, mushrooms, and huge bunch of coriander. Have coffee at the market, then lunch in the south on the return trip. A lovely little café that looks like nothing from outside but is busy providing non-stop meals and takeaways. We can see a man busy at the outside beehive shaped kleftiko oven. And we're surrounded by pots of luxuriant basil.