To Pyla by bus, and the area seems to be full of police. Cop cars parked on corners and driving up and down side roads. Third day of sun so J and Bill working on the roof, retiling bits that were not slanted enough to prevent standing water. Meanwhile over the front door swallows are nesting, so we’ve been using the side door to give them some peace. And Bill has made a small trapeze style perch which they seem to like. Flowers around the house thriving in the warm sun.
Fish and chip lunch, an annual tradition at the restaurant next to the Dhekelia Base (UK). Must be frozen as there are certainly no cod in the Mediterranean, but they consistently turn out some of the best fish & chips we’ve had, and the chips have definitely never seen the inside of a freezer.
Turns out that the heavy police presence was down to a bicommunal football game being played between South and North Cyprus teams with President Anastasiades and a former Chelsea Football Club player attending. Northern Cyprus President Akinci was invited but decided not to go when he found the game would be in Pyla, just on the Greek side of the border rather than in the buffer zone.
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