Unhappiness in the North of Cyprus, apparently, over the change to permanent summer time, resulting in protests and strikes, which the newspapers in the South are pleased to report. Of course the daylight saving which provides more light in the evening leads to later dawn as well as later sunset, and we are now very near the winter solstice. Sadly a school bus accident in the seven AM darkness caused three deaths as well as injuries and there seems to be more than enough blame to go round: "The head of the union of Turkish Cypriot high-school teachers Tahir Gokcebel had said on Thursday that the labour minister must resign because the bus driver did not have a work permit, the education minister because the bus driver was driving without insurance, and the transport minister because he is generally responsible for road safety." All this in addition to complaints about the adoption of permanent summer time.
Meanwhile early sunset here (shown looking inland from our balcony) sugests more good weather.
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