We finally meet our host, Aysel, and her partner and young daughter. Aysel has been in Ankara having a bone marrow transplant and has completed her quarantine on returning to the TRNC. She has a Canadian connection as well. She’s an architect and spent two years studying in Winnipeg. We’ve corresponded over the last three months but not met.
We go for a walk in the evening. Nice to see the restaurants beginning to open up. It’s warm with a light breeze and people seem to be eating at outside tables only, a bit more widely spaced than before the lockdown. The old city always fairly quiet at night anyway. Busy with coach tours during the daytime in the pre-pandemic days but empties out at night. But those who are out are cheerful, happy to be able to go to cafés and bars restaurants.
We go for a walk in the evening. Nice to see the restaurants beginning to open up. It’s warm with a light breeze and people seem to be eating at outside tables only, a bit more widely spaced than before the lockdown. The old city always fairly quiet at night anyway. Busy with coach tours during the daytime in the pre-pandemic days but empties out at night. But those who are out are cheerful, happy to be able to go to cafés and bars restaurants.
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