Road works. More accurately sewer replacement underway in parts of central Gazimagusa. Disproportionately on our street, although we’re parallel to a main road so it’s easy to take an alternative route. Unfortunately, the replacement sewage pipes (blue, left in photo) are no larger diameter than the original ones and in any case would connect somewhere to small bore pipes and so it continues. In both North and South Cyprus, as in Greece, you cannot flush toilet paper down most toilets.
Open our second bottle of wine with the new tirbuşon. Opener quite satisfactory, wine a bit less so. Inexpensive Spanish but no hint of tannin. Basically alcoholic juice. Not unpleasant, but we’ve made better. So won’t be a repeat buy. Although actually we’re moving to the South on Friday, so the choices will be somewhat different. Tax component would be similar, though - 19% as opposed to 20%.
Television in the flat surprisingly good. TV has a decent screen, reception much better than wifi, and a couple of channels, including one Turkish one with a CNN style repeat loop actually supply English content. Not really a problem in the days of tablets, wifi and VPNs. Can access whatever news we want, albeit on a very small screen, and in fact didn’t check out the television for a couple of days, having pretty low expectations. There is, though, a Japanese documentary channel broadcasting in English with interesting material and a beautifully calm style of delivery. Anything worth saying is worth saying without hype. A real pleasure.
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