Monday, December 12/2022

Seedyish area around the port -  not a million miles from where we stay but the neighbourhood does change and the class of bars deteriorates as you approach the port. Rumours of hotel rooms rented by the night rather than by the day. So on our way to Lidl in pursuit of wine, sheep’s yoghurt and tonic we pass a bar with a small sign over the door saying Bar Women Wanted. Gender discrimination no doubt in violation of some EU regulation and most probably some Cypriot one as well. Am reminded though of an internet café we used to frequent here in the years before wifi which announced shamelessly a lower internet price per hour for “girls”. Clearly the intent was that the presence of more young girls would serve to attract more boys, who constituted the majority of their patrons. Did consider saying that the discrimination was undoubtedly illegal, but instead used to hand them the “girl” amount, knowing perfectly well that I was not who they were hoping for - and that they would be unwilling to tell me so.