Water, and also gas cylinders, are delivered by a nice man called Mehmet. The deal is that I message him on WhatsApp the day before we want a delivery. So early this morning I have just said to J that it’s surprising that Mehmet is prepared to drive over and deliver a nineteen litre bottle of water for a hundred lira ($3.12 CAD, £1.69).
Short answer is that he isn’t. Not any more. Knock on the door. Young assistant there with the water bottle. One hundred fifty. Well, scarcely surprising. And inflation is hitting everything, and not only in North Cyprus, although the unstable nature of the Turkish lira makes it more obvious here. Though foreigners like us normally operate on harder currency that they bring in and change to Turkish lira as needed.
Still fifty percent increases seem fairly striking. Although probably a bit of bite the bullet about it. Simpler than raising it by five percent every couple of weeks. And nineteen litres of water is heavy. Well, nineteen kilos of course.
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