Remembering past Christmases as I come across this photo from 2017. We still have the stained glass - OK, technically stained plastic - Christmas tree. It’s up on the window this year as well. But it loses a little in translation without a palm tree growing immediately outside the window.
And from the previous year, 2016, the memory box on Facebook produces this little gem:
‘Cyprus banks rock! Went to cash point this morning and too slow to prevent receipt being sucked slowly back into the works. Inquired within and they kindly retrieved it. Noticed table by the door laden with mixed nuts, dried fruit and crisps. Would I like some wine? I hesitate. Not quite 10 AM. Sun not only not over the yard arm but not in evidence at all. It's raining. But I should have a drink to warm up, they say. So I accept a small glass. In addition to wine there is zivania (local spirit) and two kinds of whisky on the table. Much laughter amongst the staff when I tell them that in Canada banks regard coffee and biscuits as a treat. "Here we do it for the customers on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve."’
Do have to admit, though, that this particular bank branch office is no more. Gone in the international wave of small bank branch closures.
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