Checking on the bus strike. Apparently they plan to "escalate" next week, although they don't seem to have much labour left to withdraw. Think one of the letter writers to the Cyprus Mail had it right:
"The owners are paid by the taxpayer but it appears that a disproportionate amount of that money sticks to their fingers."
Anyway, plan B as far as getting to the airport on Tuesday is concerned. Ditto, probably, on coming back. Cyprus taxis overpriced, in part because there are too many of them, so that survival depends on high fares from few customers. Much worse than the airport question is the fact that our social life is tied in to the bus service. Talk of strike funds and holding out for victory not highly reassuring, although we do think that the drivers are not the cause of the problem. Ran into Harry at the supermarket and talked long enough that, as Harry said, we might as well have stopped for coffee. He has a good friend who drove a local bus for a while and was disgusted with the inefficiencies and outright corruption in the system.