Paphos Life

Just two weeks ago on the motorway east of Larnaca, on a long sweeping right hand bend between Pyla and Dhekalia, I was overtaking when I saw a pick up truck coming down the hill on the wrong side of the central reservation straight at me, I managed to brake and get behind the car in front as did so...

Uncle D wrote: ↑Sun May 22, 2022 12:59 pm Nearly as bad as English football fans

But neither are probably as violent as the Cypriot football fans.

Yes but the Incirlik base does have a very nice swimming pool. Spent a few hours off duty in it!

NATO has always depended on the size and power of the Turkish Military as a buffer against Russian aggression on the South East European flank.

IF - you do not have a "Yellow slip" as proof of alien registration/residency in the Republic, then the Greek Cypriot immigration police will most likely stamp your passport on exit and then arrival, at least that is what they do at my local crossing in Deryneia.Safe passes no longer requi...

Secret Valley golf club do a mean draught Guinness, one of their top sellers.

They use the ECB rate which you can find by adjusting the applicable dates in this link.
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_ ... bp.en.html

Weetabix with a nice coating of good butter and some cheedar on top, lovely.

The article is from 2017, maybe things have changed.

There have been unusually high numbers of the less common Blue-cheeked Bee-eater migrating thro since the first week of April. The more widely known European Bee-eater has been showing in the last week, and it has been a good spring for Common Nightingales with one bird singing its head off during t...

Are they not multi-gender facilities?

I use both Revolut and Wise for most of my needs at present. IPhone users just stick them in your Apple Wallet on your phone and double click to make your card payments at shop terminals. Now I don't even carry a physical wallet or cards, just use the various cards in my apple wallet. Just keep a fe...

Yes you are absolutely correct our trees here are Loquat, however the local Cypriots still call them Mosfilla/Mosphila, the regional accents in the east are markedly different to the west. I also see Hawthorn in a number of places but it is not quite the same as the English Hawthorn which covered mu...

Strange how the islands trees blossom and fruit at different times. Over here in the east and only 70m above sea level, both my neighbours Mosphilla trees have fruit ready for picking, in fact I might just go and eat a couple because they don't last long before they blacken off.

I do not use Cyta but when I did some 6 years ago or so, you could go into the router settings and change your DNS, I also used SmartDNS. As I do not have access to a Cyta router,,via your web browser type 192.168. 10.254 which should be the router default IP address and look around to see what if a...

Les Bean wrote: ↑Tue Mar 22, 2022 7:51 pm I know it's 3.1%,but usually by now there is written confirmation, the absence of which is my query

Ours arrived this Tuesday just gone. I think it was postmarked Rotterdam as does a lot of post from UK government agencies.

so now use a vinegar, washing up liquid and salt mix and that combo kills most weeds within days. What's the quantity of each for the mix? Is it white vinegar or malt vinegar? I use White Vinegar x 2ltrs, a cup of salt, a good squirt of washing up liquid. Get yourself a spray bottle or just pour it...

Weed killers have become very difficult to get on the east of island unless you have a permit. A simple enough 1ltr bottle of a basic herbicide such as Roundup (if it is still no sale), means the shop cannot sell to you unless you produce a permit. No idea where to get a permit so now use a vinegar,...

Good name for a donkey though ain't it. By the way you don't show who is who.

Cyta 5G mobile data, I have been getting in region of 160 down and 44 up of late, so looks like they are splitting 200Mbps up.
From 1 April Cyta Red mobile users are getting a great upgrade called Freedom plus Unlimited calltime, unlimited SMS and unlimited mobiledata.