We’re to meet up with Harry and Ailsa and Jane and Bill at a Chinese restaurant off the Dhekelia Road. Usual futile calculations re probability of bus arrival corresponding to schedule predictions. Made more complicated by the fact that there are two different schedules online - and the more official one has less desirable arrival times. Reconcile ourselves to arriving early - which we do - and going for a walk while waiting for the others. Happily, it’s a nice mild evening. First time we’ve seen H and A since we got back to Cyprus. Turns out they’re celebrating an anniversary and wish to be host the meal. Some amusement as we ask which anniversary and they try to remember whether it’s fifty-one or fifty-two, eventually settling on the former. Meal is good, background music is quiet, and as there happen to be no other customers in the little restaurant it’s easy to hear and conversation is a pleasure. Lack of other customers presumably less desirable for the restaurant, but they’re very gracious.
Excellent luck in the timing of the bus home, though the driver has to tell us that after nine o’clock the fare goes up from €1.50 to €2.50 - and I remember Hazel telling us of a confrontation she had had with a driver who told her it was after nine and the higher fare, when she pointed out that the bus had been due to leave before nine and she had been there but the driver hadn’t. Can’t remember whether her view prevailed.