Meanwhile the TRNC Meteorological Department has issued a warning of a Siberian cold front approaching. Had thought it hard to imagine how, unless Siberian was simply code for very cold, as the wind here is almost never from the north, but check the weather map and indeed it features steady north winds.
So we are promised a cold and moist air mass delivering temperature drops of as much as eight degrees. Which would leave us well above freezing here, but chilly by comparison with what we’ve learned to expect.
In the North we do hear the Adhan, the Muslim call to prayer, five times a day from the mosque. It’s not especially loud and wasn’t an irritant even when we lived closer, in the old walled city. Have also seen complaints occasionally in England from people who feel their Sunday morning peace is disturbed by peals from nearby steeples. But it seems in the South the ringing of church bells is being used as a form of offence. According to the Cyprus Mail « Father Georgios of Platanistasa had allegedly resorted to ringing the church bells for extended periods of time and amplifying their sound with a loudspeaker in order to exact revenge on the community leader Savvas Savvides ». Apparently his early morning services were broadcast at a volume that could be heard in the next village. He is being charged with noise pollution.
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