Jaworski Travels

 

Courtesy Jonathan Gan

Shopping day. Dolmuş fares have just gone up but actually pretty reasonable. Eighty-five lira from Lapta to Girne (£1.91, $3.43 CAD). That’s about fifteen km. But lesser amounts for shorter distances. Fifty lira (£1.12, $2 CAD) down to our usual shopping area - several larger supermarkets, the Russian specialty shop and the excellent DIY cum hardware store. 

We discovered the DIY place last year and love it. Not only for the huge variety of useful items but because the staff are great - knowledgeable, quick on the uptake, helpful but not pushy. Should be writing advertisements for them. 

Russian shop unfortunately doesn’t have either the salt herring that J thought we were going for or the German sausage I thought we were going for. Not that the lack of communication mattered as it turns out.

And from the how the hell did he do that department:

Courtesy Cyprus-FAQ

One more to add to the lost control of the car list. Described as having fallen off the bridge but may have lost something in translation. Suspect it simply missed the bridge altogether. Seems to have been travelling from left to right across the photograph, so to speak. Veered into the right lane. As people here drive on the left, that was a significant veer. Alive, but not uninjured. (Predictive text was determined I should write uninsured instead of uninjured, but that is actually unlikely). It happened at ten o’clock last night so suppose he might conceivably have fallen asleep.